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Hi, I need a referral for an internship
in Financial Advisory Team
Valuation, M&A, FDD, or Financial
Consulting - at Big 4 in Germany,
can anyone help me?
I did my bachelor's degree at the
University of Mannheim.
I would appreciate any kind of
support and advice.
I'm not above reaching out to alumni
directly via Linkedln, but l'd prefer to
bug as few as possible. So if you
want to help, guide, or mentor,
please pm me.
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Could you elaborate what you mean by the second sentence?
In PE the rigor is the job. You build a clean, well thought out model, clear assumptions, a good investment memo that walks someone through your logic, audience aware and actionable. You constantly think through additional analyses/data cuts and having that foresight is what separates you from others. A lot of the work product is the deliverable, so being methodical and thorough is literally how you’re ‘good’ at it. I spent years honing that and got genuinely good at it.
At a pod shop, that same instinct feels like a liability. Things move fast, time is limited, and I get the sense, the more “polished” show-your-work approach I do, the more it doesn’t land. It doesn’t just fail to help, it reads as unproductive/performative. When you think through it, sounds easy enough to recalibrate but genuinely feel like I’m in this weird spot of being… lost. Like I can’t show how I actually think, because the way I think isn’t wired for how this seat operates. Anyone hit this and come out the other side?
Yeah I see that. What, then, do people do? Work off of intuition and repeat experience?
Tell me more?
MMHF?