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I like the “we all saw” lol. I never worked there but I do know a few folks there. I’ll say they’re extremely sharp, know how to make money, and are well paid. I did get the sense that they work longer hours than others. Now how much more? I really can’t gauge that. But they do a ton of interesting stuff on the credit - including mezz, pref, transitional bridge loans, and construction loans. 

 

I’m very close with an associate there who told me they work a lot (90 hours a week) pretty consistently. They get paid extremely well even in downturns, however. Their pay is in line with blackstone and Starwood and probably beats it in some years. They do a ton of interesting construction loans and you will learn from the best there. But brutal hours for sure.

 

With the firm's culture emanating from three ex-Drexel co-founders, two of which (Leon Black and Josh Harris) are by all accounts psychos / screamers, and the flagship group (corporate PE) being described as hell on earth...I'd be surprised if there's any group within Apollo with "good" culture...just "bad" to "really bad" to "really really bad"

 

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