Strong MM or UMM to GE
Incoming IB analyst. Is transitioning from UMM/MM PE to top GE a feasible/practical career path? I was thinking I would do a few years in buyout to build the modeling skills then transition to GE as I find it more interesting long term.
It’s possible but I highly disrecommend this path. From personal experience I will tell you you can be .1%ile and still not make the bump. I’d recommend just going straight to growth or maybe leave after 1 year if you can’t make the jump immediately if you see a hiring opportunity to lateral at Associate level, even if a start-over of ASO years. You don’t have a valley / growth background (it might be easier if all your friends are Stanford CS and so you’re on top of the tech ecosystem) so they don’t really give a shit about your prestigious UMM experience in the valley except some occasional places that have Wall Street DNA. But like Accel growth doesn’t give a flying fuck you worked at Berkshire. If you want LSV go direct, don’t bother with UMM, UMM PE is a slog and it’s both awesome for your career sometimes but not helpful other times for things where you should have just moved directly.
Thanks. Do you think you miss out on the modeling skills by jumping straight to GE after IB? Or does IB cover all that? Also, is it different if you are looking at Bos/NYC GE? A lot of those places seem to have more of a Wall Street tilt.
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