Anyone give up on PE recruiting? Do you regret it? I feel like just throwing in the towel after so many ups and downs the past several months at different stages with various firms.

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In my experience, you need to fully commit / have your story polished and then it does become a numbers game.

Source: did 10+ interviews before landing offer. Last 5 all went to final rounds and felt good about them, but the first few I was definitely unprepared looking back

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How do you take all that time off work for interviews? Surely colleagues would catch on

Several years back my friend from Goldman interviewed at 15 different HF before receiving a single offer.

Today he makes 7 figures.

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Anyone willing to share what typical VC interviews look like on the Corp dev/deals side? Reached out by a recruiter and have no idea where to start

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I’m really close to giving up, which probably isn’t the encouragement you want to hear... I just SUCK at interviewing lol

Thanks for the response. Don’t worry. Clearly I suck at interviewing too. But yah, I’m not on here to have a bunch of people reassure me to keep pushing and don’t give up. Wondering more how people who did give up, and how they feel about it now.

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It’s brutal. Try to think “long game” - can’t approach it with a normal exit timeline

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