Are people still working until 2-3am Monday - Thursday?
Even with the added headcount from the ripe lateral market and the policies enacted after the media attention towards the industry last month?
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Yes
Even in RX?
Yup. Absolutely living the dream
Yep and not just Monday to Thursday, brotha
What's morale looking like in your group?
Sheesh, is it 9-2am every single day for the past 3 months or have you gotten a break or at least weekends off
Yep 9am - 2am is the norm Monday - Thursday
Yes. At ubs.
Right now my only offers are to lateral to an eb where I work till 2am as well.
Regret not studying comp science.
Also at UBS. Hours and group culture are very bad.
Damn bruh , had a buddy who left ubs coverage who said he really enjoyed the culture there.
Yep, consistently pulling 8am-2/3ish Monday-Thursday
My mds and directors stopped caring about Saturday policy too. :(
Interested in hearing about Jefferies Houston / FT Partners / or MoCo
At Jefferies Houston. Working till 2-4am on the regular but semi light hours on saturday. but the group is having a great year so expecting a very nice bonus. We are gonna have a net increase of 8 analysts by the end of July so expect hours to go down then.
Is that increase of 8 from new first-years arriving or laterals? If the latter that's insane. My bank in Houston is losing analysts like crazy and laterals are tough to come by.
Yes. I also have the great pleasure of cross-border deals with time zone differences on some of my deals, providing me with the opportunity to attend 6am meetings frequently.
Moreover, people at my group are mostly the sole analysts on each deal, so good luck if something goes wrong you basically have no bandwidth
Chicago MM:
Everyday but Friday (get off 9/10) and Saturday (no work).
Where.
Heard WB has protected Saturday’s but not sure
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