0 Early employee secondary sold at a discount in follow-on rounds - why? 1 5y
+4 ESG Private Funds 4 5y
+10 What kind of book do you guys read (PE)? 2 5y
+22 GS MBD Working Hours 13 5y
0 Moving from Boutique Private Capital Advisory to Private Equity 3 5y
0 REPE exit opportunities?? 2 5y
+12 iBank Recommendations 9 5y
+3 IR as a Career Path 4 5y
0 What to do if you don’t like modeling... 2 5y
0 Value of networking in on cycle PE recruiting 8 5y
0 noob with easy Q: 10q and 10k filing dates? 1 5y
0 Preference shares 4 5y
0 Single Family Offices doing Direct PE 1 5y
+15 PE Secondaries / Co-invest comp? (Alpinvest, Blackstone, etc) 10 5y
0 SPAC Recruiting / Exit Opps 2 5y
0 Lateral IB analysts & PE Recruiting? 5 5y
0 What is "Market" comp for senior associate / VP level in PE? 2 5y
+6 Gryphon Investors Interview / Culture 3 5y
+10 Tides Equities - heard of them? 2 5y
0 Switching out of Medical School 2 5y
+9 Minnesota Distressed Funds 12 5y
+3 HIG Bayside Modeling / In Person Interview 4 5y
+130 Q&A: PE Associate at a single-sector mid-market fund 45 5y
0 NTM revenue multiples: question 4 5y
+10 PE Megafund Or MM Bank? 4 5y
0 Which tech PE shops have pre-MBA associate coinvest? 1 5y
+30 Macquarie Capital - Principal Investing 25 5y
+14 MF PE in Continental Europe 9 5y
+9 PE Salary Understanding 2 5y
0 noob with question on trial balances 2 5y
0 Questions about launching a SPAC 3 5y
0 EV and NWC adjustment 4 5y
0 PE Fundraising process/Documents 6 5y
+6 PE exit opps from SMBC 1 5y
0 Is middle market PE worthwhile? 5 5y
+3 Distressed debt / debt-to-control investment environment 3 5y
+63 Net worth of Private Equity associates 51 5y
0 How to Let My PE Firm Know I Want to Start Early? 4 5y
+3 Growth PE London? 4 5y
0 Does your PE firm have flextime policy prior to COVID? 3 5y
+19 Broke my model - excel help 9 5y
0 Having a tough time at work 1 5y
+26 . 7 5y
0 Back in the office? 2 5y
+7 LMM/MM PE Summer Analyst Programs 9 5y
+14 Growth pipeline work: Best practices 4 5y
0 How rigid are compliance trading policies? 1 5y
+39 Anyone Want to do a "Search"? 27 5y
0 Quick Question - Estimating Levered Returns 1 5y
+7 Leveraged loan investing? 18 5y
+69 What is Canada comp like? 40 5y
0 Industrials IB to Tech PE/GE? 3 5y
0 What is the concept of an attach/detach point in project finance? Particularly related to a unitranche financing. 3 5y
+16 Infra Fund Case Study Prep Help 1 5y
0 Capital structure terms? 6 5y
+12 Family Office Recruiters? 1 5y
0 Private Equity M&A internship at a small firm as my first internship 1 5y
+18 Does an unfriendly interviewer in final round say much about firm culture or whether you get an offer? 7 5y
+91 Q&A: 3rd Year Associate - Private Equity 75 5y
0 Is 35 y.o. too late to try to break in equity research? 6 5y
0 BO at a MF- Chances of pivoting to FO? 2 5y
+17 Value of an E-MBA 7 5y
+70 What do discuss during coffee/lunch meetings? 63 5y
0 Starting the next AirBnB of xyz - initial growth and funding 7 5y
+14 CBV vs CPA vs CFA® breaking into PE 3 5y
+14 PE Exit Opps after Being Let Go at Mid-Level 10 5y
0 Work email vs personal 1 5y
+16 How to fund the next AirBnB of xyz? 4 5y
+32 Joining portco post associate—what title/comp? 28 5y
+5 IK Investment Partners 4 5y
+40 IBD Associate --> PE 13 5y
+30 Private Equity Portfolio: How Would You Hedge? 8 5y
+21 An explanation of Limited Partnership Agreement (LPA) in Private Equity 1 5y
+10 Ideas to volunteer help at my alma matter's endowment? 1 5y
+4 What have you enjoyed the most about PE? 3 5y
+3 Emerald Capital Partners 1 5y
0 FIG Private Equity in Southeastern/ Mid-Atlantic Region 1 5y
+21 No closed deal -> post-MBA recruiting? 9 5y
+11 Credit Investment Memo - Example 3 5y
0 Regional IB -> Newly formed Family Office 1 5y
+31 Are PE interviews that hard? 11 5y
+23 SPAC 11 5y
0 Cohen Private Ventures (Point72) 3 5y
0 Anyone have an updated list of headhunter coverage? 1 5y
0 Secure role prior to b-school? 5 5y
+9 Nippon Life Global Investors Americas 2 5y
+41 Ecom w/ $30M sales 12 5y
0 LMM PE vs. Boutique IB for Summer Analyst Internship 5 5y
+1 PE Co-investor - looking to connect 4 5y
+12 Looking to interview Private Equity Professionals 1 5y
+8 Culture in Distressed Buyout 7 5y
+15 How to recruit for different geographies 7 5y
+20 Learning Curve from IB to PE 4 5y
+48 Investment Professional VS Operating Professional 33 5y
0 LMM PE? 1 5y
0 LMM PE Analyst 2 yr program 2 5y
+29 Canadian PE (MM) 7 5y
+23 Firms Unsupportive of PE Recruiting 16 5y
+8 Work feels like prison 5 5y
+3 Recruiting for GE after 1 Year in IB 2 5y

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  • Moelis & Company 01 98.9%
  • JPMorgan 01 98.4%
  • Morgan Stanley 08 97.8%
  • Goldman Sachs 02 97.3%

Overall Employee Satisfaction

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  • Evercore No 98.9%
  • Morgan Stanley 01 98.4%
  • Banco Santander 02 97.8%
  • BMO Capital Markets 12 97.3%

Professional Growth Opportunities

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  • Moelis & Company 01 98.9%
  • Morgan Stanley 06 98.4%
  • Goldman Sachs 01 97.8%
  • JPMorgan No 97.3%

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  • 1st Year Analyst (84) $151
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