How long do you need to be in FDD to make good exits?

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Purely anecdotal but I’ve been in FDD for 2 months and a recruiter hit me up for an IB opportunity saying they were looking for “anyone with any amount of FDD experience”

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Are you HCOL or a big finance town?

From the LinkedIn messages I’ve got for IB, they’re looking for someone with a year of experience (I’ve been in FDD about 5 months)

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This is 100p my goal. Slave it for 1-2 years then move to PE

18 months to Corp Dev Associate, promoted to Manager 6 months later

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Two years in……don’t want IB. I just want Corporate FPA, no one reached out with that :(

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FPA is not super easy to break into. You might even need to take a step down in title. FPA is probably one of the most sought after jobs in most companies since the work is interesting. Also a lot of ex IB and Strat consulting peeps try to go into FPA for the better hours. Obviously pay is way less than IB but the hours are good and predictable.

How about the inverse of this question, does staying too long hurt your exits like audit?

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Staying too long does hurt your exits, you will have to take a paycut. I think 1.5yrs in FDD is the sweet spot.

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