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You are going to have a next to impossible time finding any legitimate / large PE firms that are fully remote... I am sure there are LMM firms out there who do this, likely in Tier 3 cities where they can't attract much talent, but LPs will be skeptical of a fully remote team. PE simply does not lend itself to remote work.
Not true. I know 4 people that work at $1bn+ latest fund buyout shops that are fully remote. Mostly outside of NYC funds (Boston, SF, etc) that have employees that want to stay in NYC. Typically senior / midlevels tho. Only know 1 associate that does that
I think you're saying the firm is mostly located in that other city with some remote employees... one-off exception or remote seniors is very very different from actively hiring new associates to be fully remote. Esp right now with the extreme return to office push, someone hired in 2020/2021 was in a different environment
Mate, please drop names.
Do the interns also work remotely?
A principal staying in NYC while most of team is in Boston is very different than OPs ask for a fully remote firm
Im curious as to why u think PE doesnt lend itself to remote work. My fund only has juniors and backoffice in-office (hybrid), all senior deal team members are remote.
if anything I think PE may be one of the better industries for remote work considering the constant need for travel and close to all day virtual interactions with management and advisors.
It's an apprenticeship industry, plain and simple, and it's hard to learn those things over Zoom.
Sounds like your firm is not fully remote and just seniors are... Seniors don't need to be in office all the time given travel schedule (although it would benefit their juniors to learn from them in-person) but any ASO/VP who is fully remote is losing out on a lot of networking, soft skills development and even picking up some more hard knowledge just from being in the room.
Not to sound like a boomer but it's very true that so much of career learning comes from the time in between meetings. There's a reason pretty much every firm is at least 3 days a week RTO
What about funds that are 3 days in and 2 days WFH? Common?
Pretty sure Apollo does this. See Marc Rowan's interview with David Rubenstein on YT.
Pretty sure he wasn’t referring to Associates lol
Yes that's what we have but trying to get office days to 1-2 a month
1 to 2 days a month? Not sure that would work.
I think you at least have to have IC meetings in person
Are you APO or another fund?
Bain Cap does this (at least in Boston)
Vista is 3 days in office, 2 days WFH
Any MM with this model?
~$1bn fund size; NY; in office 2 days a week; don't think there would be problem as a VP+ if you wanted to work remotely for XX of time during the year or take weeks here and there in a different location.
Smaller fund and the senior guys work from home about half the time. I go in every day and don't expect that to change. On Fridays I'm usually the only one in the office. Working in person is just way more effective for asking questions on a small team. I worked from home pretty frequently at my old bank (mandatory 3 days in office, so usually WFH Friday through Monday) and have gotten sick of it. My commute is so much better now that there's no friction to just hopping on the subway. I used to commute almost an hour by bus back in IB in a tier 2 city.
It is possible. I work pretty much remotely in a SF based, ~2B AUM, Growth fund. Our team is scattered through the US (Cali, Colorado, Chicago, NY & Miami). The only issue is that its hard to learn via osmosis and there is almost no team camaraderie. Also makes it hard to know whats going on at the deals you aren’t working on. Love the remote option to live wherever you want but won’t stay for too long.
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