Pros
Junior staff is friendly, down to earth. I'm still friends with many of them today.
Cons
Horrible hours, no resources to leverage for support, minimal pay. Even if I had worked 40 hours a week, the pay would still be horrendous. There's not a single legacy person below Managing Director who works in my group anymore, they have all left for Lincoln International where pay is much better, or they took demotions to work for other companies where they work 30-40% less and make 75% all-in more. The only the reason the Managing Directors are still there is they have rollover equity from 15 years back. They are simply waiting to exit. There are no longer opportunities to invest in equity nor would you want to, the platform recently traded at astronomical levels.