Great place. Recently raised $8.4 billion, so it certainly has the firepower to go after major targets. Has made some major returns recently on several investments (eg. DoubleClick). Takes people from top groups. Overall, great place.

 
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I have a friend that left the PE arm at Goldman (after two years) to work at HF (she liked the SF location, and even turned down a Bain Cap offer just before her transfer). I disagree with the assertion that HF is a middle market player, which I believe is driven by the fact that they're based on the West coast (perhaps gibranmeng would categorize Silver Lake as middle market as well). In any case, they've got high quality people and a new fund worth ~$8.5 billion...

 

H&F is top notch - on average their IRRs have beaten any of the big name buyout shops, possibly with the exception of Apollo. If I a choice between partner track positions among all the PE firms in the world, I would probably go with H&F.

That being said, for non-partner track positions, I still don't think anything can beat the name of KKR or Blackstone.

 

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