Recruiting Experience (Landed MF during On-cycle)
Hey everyone, I'm a first-year at a BB who recently went through on-cycle and signed with a MF.
Learned a lot throughout the process (handling HH calls, doing modeling/case studies, nuances of different PE firms, talking about deals, prepping for technicals/behaviorals) and have been tutoring my whole life, so wanted to combine the two.
My experience was largely similar to another post here - I prepped maybe 2-3 h/week in July and began prepping much more intensely the week HH calls came out. Spoke with almost all HH and had a pretty strong sense of fund size/sector/geography, so there were only a handful of firms I wanted to interview at during this cycle. On Friday, I received calls simultaneously for ~10 interviews and went to one NY-based MF, where I was ultimately cut. Decided to try at another firm before sitting out, where I went through a technical round, 7 VP/senior rounds, a 1-hour model and a few case studies before ultimately signing. Whole process lasted around 8 hours.
Please reach out if interested and happy to answer any questions!
For modeling, I used Peak extensively. Learned the template first, memorized the overall format, and was then able to do the models from scratch under the time limit. I think level 3 was more than enough for me, but for some firms I wouldn't be surprised if there were level 4/5 concepts.
For casing, I mainly used CIMs and old case studies (for example the ones on Peak). There were some themes that I found over time that I could apply well to different case studies.
Other than that, I think your usual technicals/behaviorals guides are still relevant.
OP's account is 7 hour old. Is this thread an ad for Peakframeworks?