Day in the life of an IB analyst - COVID
The general topic has been covered so many times but how has it changed given COVID. Curious as I start training soon (got pushed back).
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I'm still working from 9 am - 12 am everyday, just instead of talking directly to my deal teams, I'm talking to them on the phone / zoom.
Good luck on training / the new gig.
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Try to wake up at 8, get up at 8:30
Sign on at 8:45-9 and use the Nespresso to make a latte
Do random work I didn’t do the night before or calls etc from 9-3 usually get staffed or slow from 3-5 (I skip lunch) and just so random projects like make my Uber account or setup the pro Adobe, etc
from 5-2 is usually just comments for a live deal or working on a pitch an md wants to keep changing.
Random day:
730am: wake up
8am: prep for buyside interviews
9am-10:30am: diligence calls for sell side 1
10:30am: internal sync for bakeoff
11am: catch up on a podcast or check in with an analyst in another group, bs for a bit, then back to work
11:30am: work on CIP for sell side 2
2pm: lunch
2:30pm: work on bakeoff deck with first year ANL
6pm: cook / eat dinner
7pm: work on model for sell side 1
8pm: work on cip for sell side 2
8:30pm: work on bakeoff deck
11:30pm watch some netflix
12:30am: turn bakeoff comments
5am: go to bed
8am: wake up and and do it all over again
Not every day is like this (this was a particularly awful one), but COVID has made this job a lot harder than it normally would be. MD's don't have to worry about printing books, so they expect us to always prioritize their ask / turn comments up until and sometimes during the meeting. Morale is down across my group.
This sound just like the 2nd I worked with. I think it’s like this across the board. Post Labor Day deal flow definitely ducking everyone up
Wake up at 9:14, sign on at 9:15. Dick around for 45 minutes or so before I start doing actual work. On calls / doing menial tasks until 7pm or so. Do actual work from 7pm to midnight and then go to bed.
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