I am a junior at a non target school and have offers for jpm global finance & business management, Stepstone PE analyst, citizens levfin, and possibly pwc management consulting. Out of these options which would be best for summer 2025, especially if I want to go PE after graduation. I am leaning towards JPM just due to reputation but would love to know thoughts. Thanks!
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Is this a joke? Stepstone PE...
JPM brand name is good, but the work/group are not going to be useful in landing PE. For someone in PE reading your resume, Stepstone is an equally competitive role to get.
why does everyone say Stepstone is very mid comparatively and won’t really be useful in other forums
Because it's true. But it is technically PE and will undoubtedly be looked at more favorably than global finance at JPM, that brand name means nothing for a back office role. PWC management consulting internship also not looked at unbelievably highly, would be better than JPM global finance, maybe on par/slightly less than StepStone depending on who you're talking to.
If you had JPM IB that would be different, but your other offers are going to offer either no exit ops to PE, or extremely limited. Stepstone is a solid brand even if secondaries aren't your dream, that path at least makes sense when you're doing FT recruiting.
How did you manage to land a PE role whilst also thinking about starting your career in the back office?
Because StepStone is mainly known for PE secondaries which is essentially the back-office of PE front-office roles compared to direct investing GPs.
True but a $50m startup secondaries fund based in Cincinnati analyst role is still probs better than accounting at Apollo
At that scale, the difference between those would be pretty marginal lmao
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