[braza]

> They must be prepared for a culture that vigorously prioritizes profitability and performance metrics, often with a sharpened short-to-mid-term focus due to the typical PE investment

Folks that comes from VC-Backed/Big Tech universe gets sometimes a shocking surprise when comes to PE held company.

Once in a previous employer (PE acquired company) our manager hired a person from FAANG and after 3 weeks the person told that he would like to know the company perks; and the lady of HR (that was the Office Manager also) told:

- Smoking area cubicle on the terrace

- 30 minutes a day of smoke break

- 5 daily capsules of coffee (some cheap version of nespresso)

- wet wipe and listerine on the masculine bathroom

- training for the fire brigade

After a week we never saw the guy again.

[eschneider]

They rationed the coffee?!

[braza]

Yes due to the fact that one of the partners of the PE company that acquired us mentioned that the developers used to spent some time getting coffee all day long.