Juggling Interviews
I have a handful of ongoing buyside interviews with 1-10B AUM special sits HFs and a LMM distress PE fund. My first choice fund invited me to R2, while the 2nd and 3rd choices are approaching third and final stages. I tried to tell the recruiter for my top choice fund when he asked for my availability for the coming days, and after 36 hours (w/ my 2nd follow up email) he responded, saying 'can be couple months.' he has no insight into the format of the rest of the process either (e.g., is there a 2-week case study? is the process 4wks or 8wks long?) he generally seems not to know much or care, and i doubt he's ever placed anyone here. I understand he isn't representing me anyway. Should I reach out to the senior analyst I had my first round with (or HR rep) and let them know I'm nearing final rounds elsewhere? Or bad idea to go around the recruiter?
Fuck the recruiter. If he isn’t giving you answers I would get them myself.
I can’t tell from your post whether you told the recruiter that you are nearing the end of the process with other funds. I would be surprised if you told them this and they didn’t do anything.
The reason I say this is that a fund will be pissed if they lose out on a candidate because they didn’t know about the timeline AND the recruiter won’t get paid.
If you did reach out and aren’t getting traction I would reach out to the fund directly, but be very explicit with the recruiter first and give them a chance to run the process first.
Thank you. Yes, I was explicit in my email to the recruiter and even named the other two funds. Should I name or generally describe the other two funds in my email to the senior analyst + HR person at my top choice fund? I was worried about how the fund would perceive me by going around the recruiter, but I already let 2 valuable days slip by without this recruiter answering anything other than 'can be couple months.' Again, I was clear in naming the two funds I'm approaching final rounds with to the recruiter.
There is no need to mention the names of the funds. There are many things that could be going on, but my two guesses are 1) the fund isn’t sure they want to hire you and are taking their time (want to see other candidates, maybe trying to figure out how many people they are willing to take, etc) or 2) the recruiter is really bad at their job.
How confident are you about the other two funds? If you reach out directly to the firm you’ll force an answer, and if they are on the fence (and already have this information from the recruiter) they will most likely turn you down. Now if they don’t have this info they’ll appreciate it and probably expedite the process. So how confident are you that this recruiter is bad at their job?
The other option if you are less confident is to keep going through with the other interviews until you have a job offer in hand and then force the issue with the other fund, that way you don’t force the issue now, and you can probably buy a week or two waiting on the offer.
Personally, I would push the recruiter one more time, tell them you are very interested in the fund but are concerned that you will be forced to make a decision before you can even have a final round. And if nothing comes from that I’d go to the fund directly (explain where you are in the process, tell them you really like their fund, want to have the opportunity to interview, etc, again no need to name the funds). Clearly a bit of a risk, so decide for yourself what your comfort level is, but I would rather have an answer (and think that the small risk you piss them off is worth it considering you may be losing out on your top choice - I would view it as a very small chance this ends up bad, if you get rejected that would have probably happened anyway).
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