Is it bad optics to apply to ALL BX divisions
They don’t seem to have a limit on how many you can apply to (for the London office at least). Is it bad optics if the HR see you apply to every single division? How much do they take pymetrics into account when they screen CVs?
Makes you look pretty desperate. Just apply to the ones that you're actually interested in. It'll definitely look strange if someone applies to Private Equity but also to Credit.
PE and credit aren't all that different, especially if it's private credit. A handful of people I know have made career switches between PE and credit. PE and public equity are actually pretty different (except for event-driven and activism). PE happens to be a pipeline to L/S equity mainly due to tradition and self-fulfilling prophecy of higher quality candidates going to MF PE.
If we're talking BX isn't GSO mostly public credit? Where do they do private credit apart from real estate/secondaries?
Horrible advice^^ apply to the positions you are interested in, it definitely does not make you look desperate . FYI it is possible to be interested in Credit and PE for an internship/1st job out of college
No he's right. Applying to multiple divisions shows a lack of direction.
I dont think you understand the process. HR makes the first round of cuts based on a # of factors (school,gpa,etc.) none of which is how many positions you applied. Once you make it past HR it is sent to the specific teams who run it from there and likely dont know you applied to other divisions & if they do and they deem it problematic they will force your hand with interviews and say you can only interview with one. At the most it plays a very small % and the benefit of giving yourself another chance far outweight it. The people that say otherwise likely are trying to get people on this site not to apply. Again, if this were an associate level position of course it would be problematic but for an undergrad you should just try and give yourself the best chance possible
How about the pymetrics? Any advice about the strategy to pass it? Never done anything similar...
there is no strategy as you dont know what the target profile/criteria/ of pymetrics is.
it is just another random filter you have to overcome to get invited to interviews
It amazes me how much bad advice is on this forum. I am going to BX next summer and was in at least four separate processes across two groups.
I might be the outlier at BX or have gotten lucky, but I have friends that did the same thing at other MFs and were successful. I find it hard to believe that HR would be screening for that kind of thing before giving out the cognitive/behavioral tests or scheduling a first round; however, it seems to be that some firms will only let you have one super day across all businesses/groups.
Another note from me: This was a really good question that warrants a good answer. If you don’t have the relevant experience you cannot provide a good enough answer. Kind of ridiculous that 19/20 year olds that haven’t gone through the relevant processes are just throwing out guesses and hiding behind anon.
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