Received first-round interview invitation from Bain Capital Real Estate for the 2023 SA role. I already have a 2023 IB SA offer from a MM firm. Looking for advice if I should proceed with the Bain interview. My focus has been on IB M&A recruiting. Don't know much about what the career path looks like after a Bain Capital Real Estate internship.
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Bain Capital RE is more prestigious than any MM IB firm, excluding may.be restructuring at Houlihan Lokey. I did IB at a MM firm, work in REPE now, and Bain Capital RE still probably wouldn't interview me. Not gonna talk about career paths and shit because I'm assuming this is the only answer you're looking for... Yes, it's a big step up from Blair, Jefferies or whatever hell hole you have an offer for
Thanks for sharing, didn't realize Bain Captial RE is that prestigious. I know the hours are better than IB. If you don't mind, what is the ballpark number for the first-year analyst all-in comp look like?
How the fuck would I know the comp for first year analysts at Bain Capital RE
Is this a troll post? Focus on getting the offer first. Buy side investor over a sell side paper pusher any day of the week. I did IB at a BB and RE at Bain Capital would have been one of the very best exits. The number of people at even the top banks exiting to sketchy startups and barely six figure corp dev roles is not insignificant.
If you do end up getting the offer, Bain RE will likely pigeon-hole you into RE, but it’ll be more prestigious and have higher pay than basically any exit op you can get from MM IB.
Thanks for the advise. Starting to dedicate time to prepare this interview.
When you say not insignificant, how much in % do you mean. I didn't go through the IB route, so I'm surprised that most people who did BB IB don't all get placed well. Is that a matter of just wanting a quieter gig for a lot of people or didn't get the spots they were gunning for?
It’s about as good as you can possibly do. The Harvard endowment basically spun off their real estate arm a couple of years ago because they were making so much god damn money it looked ridiculous and was controversial. That group formed the team at Bain. The guy who runs it makes $25 million a year and up and has for years now. They’re incredible. Very smart, I imagine a good culture given the team running it, and they obviously make a ton of money. No idea how much the money does or does not trickle down, but if you have a chance to work at a place like that, you do it.
how do you know how much the bain RE head makes? that seems a bit high given that they're not that big. unless bain RE is managing capital in other sleeves at bain, they've only raised 4.5B to date. 1.5B in fund I and 3B in fund ii. kind of difficult to imagine he's getting those types of economics
Because when he was at Harvard the information was public
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Was just going through the assets list and echo the above, they're buying some of the most vanilla stuff class a multi and shallow bay industrial…definitely taking a protect investor capital approach to the extreme rather than shooting for the moon on returns
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