Toxic Midlevels?

Hey everyone - so I work at an UMM fund that’s been around for a while. Not sure if it’s the DNA of the fund but, from everyone else’s experience, is there a ton of insecurities at the mid level? I feel like everyone lies to everyone, mid levels argue all the time, etc. Feel like as a junior, I’m the rope in tug a rope.

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Purely my own experience, but as you scale up the fund size, the politics get worse and worse.  Hard to keep everyone aligned / playing on the same team when you're working in a mature fund that has more limited upwards mobility where 5-10 VPs are fighting over 2-5 Principal roles.  

Probably not the place to find a long-term seat if the politics are that apparent. 

 

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