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Total Joke. These guys flamed out in past roles and couldn’t get jobs in investing anymore so launched this company. One of the guys is actually just a rich kid living off daddy still. Overcharge desperate candidates and/or self-selectors who want icing on the cake. Moved to Miami and probably make $30K a year each pushing this prep with some contract workers and interns. If you are paying more than $50 in prep, you are being taken advantage of and if you want prep, a couple of 20 year olds just looping in B tier peeps to grift off you with a resume review and maybe give you a confidence boost is not an optimal use of time / money.
I know one of the founders. Sharp guys and legit platform. I would highly recommend.
I thought the guy that founded it never even worked in IB / PE?
Agree with bahhxhdhd .
They are arrogant con artists. Will try and hook you by hyping you up so that you're eager to get onboard with their "packages". Heard their service is no better than what you can get from a phone call with a colleague who knows a bit about banking recruitment and buyside technicals.
DO NOT use their service. Total scam and terrible investment as a first year. My advice to you, don't accept their requests to connect on LinkedIn. That's their only outreach mechanism. As long as you keep ignoring, they won't be able to get in touch / scam you. And whatever you do, DO NOT get on the phone with any of them.
My advice to anyone preparing for buyside recruitment:
1. Get to know yourself first (this is probably the most important factor). Understand if you REALLY want to go for the buyside. This is not for everyone, in fact it's for the minority of IB folks if I were to say.
2. Once you've determined that you are going for it. Find a niche group you will prepare with. Build camaraderie and use weekends to prepare/mock each other.
3. Find a mentor who is already in the industry. (Trust me, you DO NOT need to pay $10,000+ for this. Use your cold emailing skills and get some calls with associates who used to be in your group / clubs / fraternity etc.)
3. Just put your head down and grind. PE/HF offers will NOT be handed on a silver platter to ANYONE. Yes, some funds have specific candidates they are "in the search" for, but trust when I say it will all come down to your VALUE ADD and contribution to generate returns/alpha. If your preparation / knowledge is poor, just because you fit the description of what kind of candidate the firm is looking for, you will NOT win an offer, plain and simple. Be a Gunner in your respective demographic because there's 20 others who are similar to you but also know their stuff.
4. Mindfulness. Recruiting is more a mind game. Start developing thick skin and resilience.
5. Commit. Commit. Commit. (instill points mentioned above and your chances of success increase tenfold, at close to zero cost)
Thanks for the info. Got on a call with one of them to better understand why their services were so expensive. Did more research after the call and posted my question here and I've not been impressed by what I've found lol
These guys look like total clowns. Keep adding me on LinkedIn with what is pretty obviously (99% certain) fake profiles pretending to be attractive women. Doesn't get more pathetic than this
why are they so desperate to add you that they are using fake accounts...?
I'm assuming they think they'll get a higher response % / reception if the profiles are attractive girls
US version of WallStreetTequila. Unfortunately, there will always be demand for this type of shit
Makes sense to me, I've coached for them before and it's honestly a pretty geat program -- to the comment:
3. Find a mentor who is already in the industry. (Trust me, you DO NOT need to pay $10,000+ for this. Use your cold emailing skills and get some calls with associates who used to be in your group / clubs / fraternity etc.)
Yeah best of luck finding someone who's going to mentor you on a Saturday on their own time for free... this is finance, not a non-profit
anyone know how they did with on-cycle this year? was their value add significant
Didn’t use them and wouldn’t because I think as other people mentioned, with a little elbow grease I think you can get everything they provide (interview prep, networking calls, etc.)—but have friends who did. When they contacted me they seemed nice and helpful, I just struggled to see their value prop if you are someone who is even remotely ok at networking or has friends in the industry. That said, people for some reason are monkey shitting anything remotely positive about them which is just unfair. They certainly have some value mainly for wealthier clients, people without great networking abilities, or people who are just lost without direction.
A few things:
1) They are a premium prep service. You certainly overpay, that’s kinda the point. It’s like standardized test 1 on 1 tutoring—could you just take practice tests, do a group class, and/ or watch videos and get 95% of what you would get from a 1 on 1 tutor? Probably. But, if you want a white glove service that will spoon feed you case studies, practice interviews, mentors, and moral support, it’s prob not a bad trade. Especially since the role people often are recruiting for could place you into a 300k+ salary role that also will impact your future. Again, for me I think I wouldn’t use it, but especially if you don’t have student loans, are time stretched as analysts are, don’t have friends in PE, and don’t know where to begin—the service could likely be helpful even if you paid a couple grand for it—that’s like a fraction of a signing bonus.
2) Some of their emails I got from their newsletter were helpful on timing and/ or random helpful materials/ guidance. They also can play recruiter sorta since, as people have mentioned from the other side, signing up as a mentor isn’t a bad deal. It’s unreasonable to think they couldn’t at least sorta help you find a potential role—are you better off with a traditional headhunter? Probably, but they are one of many resources out there. Also, if you think about it, they are pretty aligned with you where they will want to place you well to provide legitimacy to their service since they are newer.
3) Pretty sure their recruiters/ salespeople are real. The person saying they are fake attractive profiles is wrong, they literally just have a few real salespeople that are attractive—not all attractive people are fake. I think more likely is the ceo knows thirsty analysts are more likely to accept a LinkedIn request from an attractive female lol.
I mean if I was recruiting a bunch of lonely sleep deprived analysts I think rather than have some mouth-breathing, state school, goon-looking, white dude named hank sliding into LinkedIn DM’s I’d use a really cute blond girl and russian bombshell.
Edit: their salespeople are fake, dude seems pretty sleazy, but the first two points I still think are valid. You overpay, but likely get prepped sufficiently and they could be helpful for having an ear to the ground.
Why are some people so aggressively monkey shitting this—what do you lurkers disagree with? Think this is a pretty balanced take that I wouldn’t recommend the service, but see how some people found it useful.
Because it's pathetic to try and justify to others in any sense to spend whatever premium they charge when there are much better resources out there.
Is this service worth it? They seem to be offering up some pretty sweet discounts lately. Any testimonies would be appreciated!
I was reached out to by one of the recruiters on LinkedIn. I was still recruiting for a FT IB role at the time and they were already reaching out to me about whether or not I was thinking about private equity... I politely told them that I hadn't broken into IB yet and they said that they could also help with recruiting for IB. The recruiter wanted to schedule me to chat with the founder of the program. I thought it wouldn't hurt to entertain it a little bit, so I said why not?
These guys were the most disgusting and disrespectful rats I've EVER spoken to. I was scheduled to speak with the founder of the program and on the day of, I texted him confirming if we were still speaking. He texted back saying yes, and when the time came to chat, he didn't give me a ring. Maybe he was running over on another call, so I waited 10 minutes to see if he'd call or message me that he needed a few minutes since he was running late. But he never did. I ended up calling him 10 min after our scheduled time and when I told him that I was still recruiting for IB and that I was in the process with some MM firms, he LITERALLY told me "oh yeah no those aren't bad banks, but if you really want to go to the buy-side, then the firms you're interviewing with are shit. We can help you with IB recruiting, we've helped place kids at much bigger firms!" The fact that this guy told a prospective client that he's trying to win and get money from that their offers are just trash along with his disrespectful tone, AND the fact that he was 10 min late without saying anything, and acting like I was doing him a favor and that it was on HIS time just completely rubbed me off the wrong way. Who the fuck treats students that they're trying to win with complete and utter disrespect? Because you certainly don't win clients in investment banking by talking down to them.
Stay far away from these fucking clowns.
Did these guys go bankrupt or something? Haven’t heard a peep from this since on-cycle and usually they send spam email and LinkedIn messages to me on the regular
They are still actively posting on LinkedIn. Although they got very publicly dressed down on here (thread is a very entertaining read...), and looks like Litquidity ended their partnership because of it, so bet they are lying low right now.
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