Seeing a handful of PE roles near me im qualified for and I’m curious. A lot of interest in building generate AI tools for staff it seems This post is open ended and a bit vague I realize, but I’ve been reading a lot about private equity, management consulting, and restructuring projects and I’m very curious about this industry. There’s so many of these types of companies/firms/partnerships in my hometowns never ending suburbia office parks Now I’m curious if anyone else has moved from PE to software dev or vice versa and their experience in the career transition.
You cant move to PE unless you have investment banking background or you went to ivy schools.
I went to a name brand school, have worked on multiple government projects, worked under professors in academic research that’s been published in top journals, and at f500 companies. Even with all that, I don’t believe it to matter that much for most software development jobs anywhere. That kinda pedigree is more important for client facing roles imo. Engineering staff at all companies I’ve worked at in my experience just work in the basements/back-corners of the office and prefer people who aren’t as obsessed with “resume-prestige” but rather have a track record of building complex systems.
You dont need an engineering staff at a PE firm. Their job is to sell and buy companies. The bankers figure out the synergies and do the due diligence. Unless you went to harvard, stanford, or wharton or have some connections, you wont get into a pe firm unfortunately. I have friends in PE and IB and I know how selective they are.
i’m also interviewing for a PE as a SWE, the finance side of the company sounds great but tbh the engineering work sounds a little boring. but i’m hoping it’ll help down the line possibly to get into a HFT or something else in finance
also interested in more info or what have you learned since? i mostly want to get into providing buy side advisory data
lol no PE is not building AI tools for staff. You have more chance of getting into PE roles by knowing people rather than leetcoding.
I think you’re confused with what I’m trying to convey/say. I understand that private equity is not about building software. I’m saying there’s a handful of PE firms near me that are hiring software devs to build tools for their staff. I’m just curious if others have moved from PE to software dev or vice versa and their experience primarily. Which I’ll add into the description to be clearer
Ok thanks for clarifying.