Current BA/Associate in NYC/Boston. Joined 1.5 years ago and have been working 80+ hours. This seems to the the norm across the office. I picked this job expecting 65.
Is this everyone’s experience as well? This is completely ridiculous.
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What type of areas do you cover? Is this your across all coverage areas?
I've spent 3 years at my MBB. I've averaged 50-65 with some periods of 9-5 or less when between projects (at least a few weeks a year). Never gone above 70.
Either your office is sweaty or you're working considerably more than everyone else
I mean, are you working weekends? Working weekends is highly frowned upon at my firm, and if you were working 5 days a week, an 80-hour workweek would be 9am-2am M-TH and 9am-9pm Friday?
Which office were u? I'm going to NY and a kid in the year above me actually did have 9-2 M-Th on DDs
Everyone groups together MBB like they’re all the same … everyone knows McKinsey is just so so much sweatier than the other two.
DDs do have long hours, depending on manager and client. I have never heard in my life someone working that long for a non-DD case. Even then, thats’s rare at my company.
How do you get to 80 hours? Like, specifically, when are you working?
I used to work with and in sweaty offices at MBB. Average 9 to 12 over 5 days. Definitely 70+ if you're discounting lunch breaks
Sorry to hear that. For context, I’m in a group that has the reputation of being pretty sweaty. Hitting 80 hours in online time is in line with particularly bad cases. (9:30-2 M-Th, 9-6 Fr, 4-5 hours on the weekend). But that’s usually the worst 20% of cases, and they’re usually shorter and thus over in 4-8 weeks.
Consistent 80 hour BILLABLE weeks are extremely rare. (So, minus lunch time, travel time, coffee chats, etc.) There’s no way to do that without significant weekend work. I’ve done those weeks, but never for an entire case. Is that what you’re experiencing?
sounds like an average day for me
Lol spending 6 hours in a hotel and Ubers is not the same as running through a VDR trying to build ur model buddy.
Consultants are soft
As a former banker-turned-RX consultant, I thought I had bad hours in banking until I actually started having to track billables…. Banking hours suck but there’s waaaaay more downtime for analysts and associates between turning comments.
Lol can’t stick it out in banking? Consultants use AI to pull KPI’s for clients and then use AI again to build pretty slides.
Zero value add
The work is completely different so it’s not apples to apples. I’ve also never understood the compulsion to wear the hours you work as a badge of honor???
Bankers are cucks, it's all they've got to make themselves feel cool
Actual ragebait holy...try working 95 actually DTR-billable hours as opposed to 40 hours of actual work and 50 hours of sitting around waiting to get back comments
While Big 4 / their competitors can be fairly chill in transformation (non-strategy projects), life can be very chill (40-50 hour work weeks, with a 60+ hour work week for a client deliverable maybe once every 3-6 months).
Experiencing that now, not interesting work but my WLB is great.
What do you do
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