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+33	How many deals do you complete each year?	16	2y
+33	How many of you guys are actually happy in PE? What are your plans?	32	2y
+33	What's the end game on white collar and medical rollups?	4	2y
+33	Private Equity Doubts / Pivot	20	1y
+33	Moving upstream — impossible ?	18	1y
+33	How efficient are hiring markets over time?	7	1y
+33	2024 and 2025 up and coming funds	47	5mo
+33	Evaluating Partner/MD performance	6	1y
+33	Best Accounting Technicals	7	1y

+33	At a crossroad	7	1y
+33	What should I do	7	1y
+33	Too Retarded for Associate+, thoughts on what to do?	8	1y
+33	Updated 2025 Thoughts on Charlesbank?	29	6mo
+33	Former PE SA turned operator went bankrupt	23	3d
+33	ICG Secondaries Insights?	16	10mo
+33	Any Bad IB Analyst who thrived in PE (MMF)	13	10mo
+33	Top Industrial PE Funds	27	6mo
+33	Is this normal for smaller PE or is something actually wrong here?	17	5mo
+33	Is FP really not screwed?	23	4mo
+33	33 Years Old In PE & Still Single - Should I Quit To Find A Wife	30	3mo
+33	Hiring for outbound sourcing?	7	3mo
+33	Best industry/job for entrepreneurship?	11	1mo
+33	Committing to CD&R?	19	2w
+32	Leonard Green & Partners	31	9y

+32	Should you get an MBA before a summer internship?	37	13y
+32	Sourcing Model	16	16y
+32	East Coast IBD to West Coast PE?	13	4y
+32	Private Equity Compensation	12	15y
+32	Breaking into megafund from MBA	29	8y
+32	PE FoF Co-Investment versus IB for Private Equity	18	5y
+32	PE Secondaries pay and exit opportunities	51	3y
+32	Should I switch from REPE to traditional PE?	34	14y
+32	Pay at super tiny PE?	14	13y
+32	Ask me anything: Ex Banking Analyst in China + Incoming PE Analyst	20	6y
+32	Business Development Companies (BDC's)	22	9y
+32	Difference between LBO and DCF	18	8y
+32	Embarrassing Test Scores and the Buyside	30	11y
+32	Transaction/Financing Fees Tax Deductible?	22	6y
+32	The Saga of Caesars	5	11y
+32	Friend of mine wants to build a next-generation film finance company	9	11y
+32	Business School or Straight to PE from Elite Boutique	7	11y
+32	PE Investment Memo Examples?	14	1y
+32	End Career Goal Private Equity, what should I be doing currently?	6	6y
+32	Future of Placement Agents	2	9y
+32	Any Info on Star Mountain Capital?	11	5y
+32	Just joined WSO and looking to get into PE	9	6y
+32	Mezzanine Finance ---> PE?	17	4y
+32	Going from non-Target to Private Equity	14	8y
+32	Principal Investment groups at BBs—background, exit opps, comp, etc?	23	4y
+32	Joining PE during fund raising - Associate / MM	6	8y
+32	Australian Bankers -> American Private Equity	5	11mo
+32	Africa Rising	7	6y
+32	Heidrick & Struggles Report: Carry for VPs?	4	8y
+32	Q&A: Leaving PE to open Family Office	34	8y
+32	Where are your associates going these days?	4	8y
+32	Hours in MM PE?	14	5y
+32	What is the most relevnt/respectabe financial modeling certification?	11	8y
+32	On Cycle Recruiting 2018: What to Expect	6	8y
+32	Best path to private equity at Blackstone	14	6y
+32	27 year old 1st Year Analyst at Elite Boutique - Shot at PE?	6	7y
+32	How to get my foot in the door of Private Equity	18	7y
+32	Does Starting Banking Early Help with PE Recruiting?	6	6y
+32	Differences between traditional MFs (KKR, BX etc.) vs large operational funds (BainCap, H&F, Advent etc.)	11	6y
+32	Defer PE Recruiting Until Second-Year?	10	7y
+32	Going from PE Portfolio Company to PE	7	7y
+32	Corporate Development Investing to Private Equity	7	4y
+32	Guide to agreeing NDAs	14	3y
+32	Best European Language to learn?	15	6y
+32	PE post-MBA without relevant experience	3	6y
+32	Is Merchant Banking a Viable Career Path Over IBD / PE?	20	1y
+32	PE prep guide from WSO	6	6y
+32	Coronavirus impact on credit funds	16	6y
+32	Is Private Equity viewed as a stepping stone?	12	6y
+32	Infrastructure Private Equity	21	4y
+32	Sources & Uses - Private Co LBO	11	6y
+32	LBO - Debt-Like Items	16	1y
+32	How are JPM PE exits	29	3y
+32	Getting past awkwardness / public speaking	7	6y
+32	Latest State of Oil & Gas Private Equity	10	6y
+32	PE Interviews - Talking about one of the fund's investments	10	5y
+32	Failed Investments	6	6y
+32	KKR Hiring Preferences / Class of 2020	27	6y
+32	Associate Leaving Private Equity for Non-PE Roles \| MBA Worth It?	10	6y
+32	Non-target to MMPE, What's Next?	7	4y
+32	How do people narrow down PE funds they want to recruit for?	12	6y
+32	Why is SGE special?	13	6y
+32	Boston PE Firms	19	4y
+32	Joining portco post associate—what title/comp?	28	5y
+32	What's the definition of 'good hours' in PE?	35	5y
+32	Finding LMM execs / GMs for small portcos?	11	5y
+32	3i Group	11	2y
+32	Pretending you've modeled in interviews	20	5y
+32	Currently a senior analyst at a BB - accepted my MF/UMM offer but regret it - what do I do now?	11	5y
+32	Tiger's Pace of Investing	26	5y
+32	What do you wish you knew before you started in PE?	9	5y
+32	Harlem Capital "self-defined" diversity	19	4y
+32	Recruiting is broken	16	4y
+32	Lateral PE Resume and Recruiting Tips	7	4y
+32	MM Direct Lending to Credit HF or MF Credit	43	4y
+32	TPG Growth/Impact insight? Culture/comp/hours?	17	3y

+359	Return Rates For Interns Are Falling?	IB	149	6d
+308	Investment Banks Ranked By Your Divorced Blue Collared Uncle	IB	28	1d
+270	Why UBS Is the Worst Place to Start Your IB Career	IB	45	1w
+253	Downfall of Qatalyst	IB	52	3d
+245	UBS 2nd Year Analyst Q&A (2026)	IB	55	1w
+243	Work life balance = highly overrated	IB	72	23h
+214	Evercore > Goldman and I don’t think it’s particularly close anymore	IB	83	1w
+211	girl who rejected/ghosted me messaged asking for IBD job	OFF	61	16h
+210	Santander IB?	IB	10	2w
+176	Think Twice before Recruiting for HOUSTON IB!!	IB	73	3d

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