Private Equity Forum

Start Discussion
Recently Active New Topics Trending
Select Time
Global Countries
+15 What’s going on with GIP? 14 3y
+15 Dividend with negative retained earnings? 6 5y
+15 Fund-Level Carry vs. Deal-Specific 8 5y
+15 JMI Equity - Reputation? 9 2y
+15 Why don’t PE funds (or really any institution) use model generators? 2 5y
+15 Stripes Group - Fund size / comp? 9 3y
+15 ONEX New York v Toronto Office 11 5y
+15 What are signs of a good PortCo Corp Dev/FP&A Experience? 5 2y
+15 GMAT vs ACT for PE firms and headhunters 11 10mo
+15 Realistic path to Capital Solutions/Spec Sits Groups from LevFin at a BB? 7 4mo
+15 Golden Gate Capital 2025 Recruiting / Outlook & Perspective 8 2y
+15 Feeling like I could have done better 5 4y
+15 Canada MM PE Comp 11 5y
+15 Role of Buyside Lawyers in Private Debt Offerings 2 5y
+15 VP / Investment Manager Salary in Pan-European Middle-Market Fund 20 4y
+15 Keeps getting negative feed back 8 5y
+15 Latest thoughts on Insight Partners? 3 3y
+15 Should I recruit for buyside even if I think I prefer IB? 7 5y
+15 26 North in 2025 12 4mo
+15 1st round PE interview (1h w/ Partner) - questions they might ask? 6 5y
+15 Black Diamond Capital Question 3 5y
+15 Who are Sixth Street's closest competitors? Their Tao Fund Seems pretty unqiue. 8 5y
+15 Valuing early stage / pre revenue B2B e-commerce startups 10 2y
+15 LMM Comp Input 11 5y
+15 Gallatin Point - Info 1 4y
+15 The Davis Companies - PERE Firm in Boston, MA 6 3y
+15 Technical question - Revenue sensitivity in LBO Model 4 2y
+15 PE Secondaries Case Study Prep 5 4mo
+15 Affirmative Action Struck Down - Do I have a better chance at H/S? 4 3y
+15 PE Pay vs Private Credit Comp 12 4y
+15 What deep value or distressed PE funds go on-cycle? 18 2y
+15 Handling Headhunter Outreach 6 3y
+15 Critique my CV (Associate level) 4 4y
+15 BB Product Group- pivot to PE or will I die here? 3 2y
+15 PJT Park Hill Real Estate Group Interview (NY office) 1 4y
+15 Carlyle Tech PE (DC Office) Interview Guidance Please 10 3y
+15 H.I.G. Flagship Fund 3 4y
+15 London - Incoming introdution call with HH 8 3y
+15 TAS --> IB/PE/Corp Dev 5 2y
+15 Ardian Co-Invest 12 2y
+15 How well did you know your deals for on-cycle? 7 2y
+15 Industry Sourcing / Research 3 2y
+15 MF Tech/HC Groups - NYC vs. SF? 10 4y
+15 PE Off Cycle - Feeling Lost // Best Practices? 5 9mo
+15 UMM/MF lateral moves within Europe 6 5y
+15 Dumb question about management equity upon sale 7 2y
+15 REPE vs Infra PE, which one has brighter career prospects? 10 3mo
+15 Path to PE closed? 12 2y
+15 Advice Wanted: 4 Year Associate Exit Opportunities 4 9mo
+15 Best MM energy/renewables/power/infra PE firms 15 2y
+15 Best practices when it comes to dealing with stress and anxiety 10 4y
+15 Secondaries Investor 50 9 2y
+15 CapVest London 33 3mo
+15 Private Credit/DL Landscape 11 4y
+15 Infra vs Co-Invest/Secondaries 10 2y
+15 Does the concept of "superstar" even exist in PE (Associate / VP levels) ? 17 2y
+15 Blackstone GSO /KKR/Apollo Private Credit vs Other PE 11 4y
+15 How long to hear back after 2nd round? 1 4y
+15 How to deal with Passive Aggressive Young Manager 3 4y
+15 VP -> PortCo Consultant + Entrepreneur 5 9mo
+15 Dry Powder and IRR Consequence 5 4y
+15 Sumeru Equity Partners (Silver Lake spin-off) 24 2y
+15 London PE Lifestyle & Salary 20 3y
+15 MS Capital Partners 2026 6 9mo
+15 Cathay Capital PE 8 3mo
+15 Post-MBA PE Recruiting Question 8 3mo
+15 Houston non-energy PE scene 15 3y
+15 Question on Layoff strategy 2 2y
+15 Am I crazy for not wanting to do Private Equity 7 4y
+15 Downsides of Infra PE 6 2y
+15 The Vistria Group - 2024 Updates 5 1y
+15 What's the ultimate end goal? 7 9mo
+15 Fired from PE internship. Got new offer. MD called new PE firm and blackballed me. 10 3mo
+15 Newly-lateraled IB Analyst Recruiting for MF PE 5 4y
+15 ADIA PE 6 3y
+15 Parthenon Capital in 2024 7 2y
+15 Exiting PE to acquire a business 4 3mo
+15 Thoughts on Sycamore 2 4y
+15 Lateral to Career-Track after Finishing Program 1 4y
+15 BDT & MSD Interview 3 2mo
+15 GS Specialty Situations Group / Private Credit Inquiry 3 3y
+15 People who don't get into PE are failures? 8 4y
+15 PE Analyst Group Chat 20 3y
+15 How to answer why you didnt convert an internship 4 4y
+15 Call with PE CEO tomorrow morning, questions to ask? 7 3y
+15 Should I go into private credit out of undergrad? 11 4y
+15 Current European Leveraged Financing Terms Superthread 12 2y
+15 Details around Consumer / Retail PE 7 4y
+15 DELETE 1 2mo
+15 The grass is not always greener 8 9mo
+15 Software modeling? 14 4y
+15 Early Career Predicament 2 8mo
+15 Search funds 4 3y
+15 Silversmith Capital Partners Reputation? 10 2y
+15 Lateral Advice 1 4y
+15 Tech PE NYC 17 3y
+15 Ex-MBB, MFPE associate experience in different country still at disadvantage in Buyside Recruiting? 4 2mo
+15 Private Equity Pay London MF->LMM 2 4y
+15 Why did you choose PE over VC? 14 3y
+15 PER - Private Equity Recruitment 5 3y

Trending Content

View all

Career Resources

Career Advancement Opportunities

November 2026 Investment Banking

  • Evercore 01 99.5%
  • Moelis & Company 01 99.0%
  • JPMorgan 01 98.4%
  • Guggenheim Partners 02 97.9%
  • Morgan Stanley 06 97.4%
View IB Report

Overall Employee Satisfaction

November 2026 Investment Banking

  • Moelis & Company No 99.5%
  • Morgan Stanley 02 99.0%
  • Evercore 01 98.4%
  • Banco Santander 04 97.9%
  • BMO Capital Markets 13 97.4%
View IB Report

Professional Growth Opportunities

November 2026 Investment Banking

  • Evercore 01 99.5%
  • Moelis & Company 01 99.0%
  • Morgan Stanley 05 98.4%
  • Goldman Sachs 01 97.9%
  • JPMorgan No 97.4%
View IB Report

Total Avg Compensation

November 2026 Investment Banking

  • Vice President (17) $409
  • Associates (58) $261
  • 3rd+ Year Analyst (8) $210
  • 2nd Year Analyst (29) $183
  • Intern/Summer Associate (16) $161
  • 1st Year Analyst (84) $151
  • Intern/Summer Analyst (77) $101
View IB Report
notes
16 IB Interviews Notes

“... there’s no excuse to not take advantage of the resources out there available to you. Best value for your $ are the...”

Read more

Leaderboard

1
redever's picture
redever		 99.2
2
Secyh62's picture
Secyh62		 99.0
3
BankonBanking's picture
BankonBanking		 99.0
4
kanon's picture
kanon		 99.0
5
DrApeman's picture
DrApeman		 98.9
6
dosk17's picture
dosk17		 98.9
7
GameTheory's picture
GameTheory		 98.9
8
Betsy Massar's picture
Betsy Massar		 98.9
9
CompBanker's picture
CompBanker		 98.9
10
Linda Abraham's picture
Linda Abraham		 98.8
View all
success
From 10 rejections to 1 dream investment banking internship

“... I believe it was the single biggest reason why I ended up with an offer...”

Read more