I'm the same mid-level associate at another firm above.Anonymous User wrote:Obviously intentionally anon.
I don’t want to be too specific, but want to give others the same warnings I wish I had received. Choosing Kirkland over my other “safe” options might end up being the worst decision of my life so far, and I am basically on damage control mode hoping to salvage it. As others have said, it’s a good place to lateral as a mid to senior associate, but a bad place to be a junior. To give intentionally vague reasons: low hours and treated with contempt. No my experience is not unique.
Some of the other firms in the Houston market look at potential junior KE laterals carefully (and one of the aforementioned "top" firms basically disregards them as potential laterals). Although some KE associates are great given the quality of the PE work, the training juniors receive at KE may be a mixed bag (i.e., there is no hand-holding at all), and this is even more tempered by the fact that they would need to explain why they would be leaving $$ on the table to another firm in the same market.
