What qualifies analysts for MF PE jobs?

Is it really just a function of prestige of the school you went to and the bank you worked at?

Curious since I used to work in IBD but didn’t really get any MF offers.

Although it’s ancient history now that I’m an Eng manager at a faang but was curious what that process “really” entailed?

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No secret sauce. You just interview well and hope that you get some looks. Non-target here that somehow ended up a MF. Just got lucky and I would assume many others would say the same. 

 

From my experience:

1. Meet every single headhunter and don't be socially retarded and have them cuck you

2. Have 2nd years help you write your "deal experience" and go through deal talking points

3. Helps to have a good GPA from a decent school but you can't control this once you're graduated

4. Grind LBO case studies

5. Keep interviewing until you get a job

MF recruiting is a crapshoot, especially for On-Cycle (when you've aligned logos for approx 1 month on the desk) and anyone who strongly believes that kids who get MF offers are somehow "better" than others are lying.

 

Makes sense - I felt this way as well. Guess it’s a given since there are so few positions with so many applicants it’s a crapshoot.

Thought my memory was hazy but it did feel like it was really a function of how much people liked you (whatever the reasoning was).

 

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