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Interviewed with them before and found them to be very arrogant and very aggressive.

The European portfolio looks pretty under water (Klarna, Mollie, Traderepublic), but they are a US fund with well known portfolio companies

 

Have and have had multiple friends there so know it pretty well. Random thoughts below

When things get busy things get damn busy. Not a WLB place but is any at that scale.

The head of the office is super competitive. Means he can be volatile if things don't go as planned although less so directly at juniors.

Pay is good and then very very good at VP. The assos are on a 3-year program (I think) and get to co-invest in deals. They do a lot of backchannel references for applicants. Despite fundsize they tend to be quite 'scrappy'. And yes, fundraise is not going too well but that's nothing new under the sun in VC.

Good place and good folks in general

 

I only did the first 30min interview. The person was actually super nice. Basic questions around where do you come from, why growth, why tech. Prepare investment ideas + deep analysis of one of their portco. 

 

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