Hi ๐ŸŸ๐Ÿก๐Ÿ . Currently SC at Deloitte (4 years industry exp, 1 year at Deloitte) with stellar ratings and a partner heading our team who really likes me. Will make manager next year. Now I have an offer from a very low profile PE firm and McKinsey. Both at associate level. Compensation almost identical (+20% from Deloitte), but PE higher bonus opportunities further down the line. What would you do? Stay, PE or McKinsey?

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Please choose the PE offer and never look back. The launch pad even a small PE shop can provide can pay insane dividends in the form of carry further down the line.

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Congrats on the offers! PE will pay the most until Partner, but the hours at any PE or MBB firm are brutal. If youโ€™re young and donโ€™t have a family, Iโ€™d say go for it. If you care about WLB, then Iโ€™d say stick with D as you are in a good place there too

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First, think hard about what you want to do. Then choose the option that will catapult you the farthest.

If I were in your shoes, I would jump on the PE race car and press down on the gas as hard as I could.

Break a leg and congratulations ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿพ๐ŸŽŠ๐ŸŽˆ on the offers.

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Whatโ€™s the role in PE firm ?

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Associate in the investment team

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youโ€™ll make more money in PE than you ever will in Consulting - or at least without another 10 years experience. If you like PE I would do that

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Mckinset

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Congrats! Whatโ€™s your background? Curious how you made the exit to PE

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Got a message on LinkedIn from a recruiter which sounded interesting and the ball started rolling from there. I have a Masters in Finance, 3.5 years of experience at a family office (PE-ish environment) and 6 months I went out on my own for something in the crypto space (close to 1m in revenue before I decided to join Deloitte).

What offering are you in D?

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Both options look great. Is the PE offer in the ops team?

It's in the investment team, but since it's a pretty small organization it is expected to be involved in almost all aspects.

I wouldnโ€™t stay at D if you didnโ€™t have to, but that might just be me

If you look at the peopleโ€™s profiles in mid-tier to top-tier PE firms, it seems like almost all of them are either from T1 investment banks or MBB....

Youโ€™ll have better exit ops as an M if you can wait it out. But I understand why youโ€™d take the money and run now too

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