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Does it matter? Titles are only specific to the firm you work. I know firms where the Associate title is actually the analyst role. Titles don’t matter.
The first sounds very descriptive, like I know what you do! The latter sounds like something a WSO poster would say is their dream job.... As in I read it, and don't know what you do.
Honestly, there are reasons for broad titles, and for narrow ones, so it all depends how it will help your job. I have come to find most titles to be BS, but they do matter in some firm hierarchy. But, what matters is how they pay, not what title they give you.
After months of research and multiple rounds of interviews with both a debt fund and a PE fund, OP received offers at both... Immediately after which he ran to the keyboard and asked WSO,
"Which one of these 'sounds better'?"
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