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Based on the most helpful WSO content, there isn't specific mention of a Deutsche Bank TMT NYC associate collapsing and being hospitalized due to exhaustion. However, there are multiple references to toxic work environments, overwork, and lack of care for employee well-being across various banks, including Deutsche Bank. For example:

  1. Toxic Culture at Deutsche Bank: Analysts have described the environment as "toxic," with poor pay and emotional/health damage not being worth the experience.
  2. General Overwork in IB: Across the industry, there are numerous accounts of extreme hours, lack of sleep, and stress leading to health issues. For instance, an associate passing out in the office was mentioned in another group, with no meaningful changes made afterward.
  3. Minimal Support from Leadership: There are recurring themes of senior management failing to address these issues, often offering superficial advice like "drink water" or "log off at 10 PM," which does little to alleviate the root causes.

If this incident occurred, it would align with the broader patterns of overwork and lack of accountability highlighted in WSO threads. For incoming analysts, it's crucial to research group-specific cultures and consider the potential impact on health and well-being before joining.

Sources: WSO 2022 Investment Banking Work-Conditions Survey (Part 2/3), Most toxic banks and groups (2023 update)?, WSO 2022 Investment Banking Work-Conditions Survey (Part 1/3), Bankers - A reporter with New York Magazine would like to speak to you..., My junior monkeys, want real change?

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That's going to be a steep medical bill. Hope the bank pays for it.

 

Worse to work for a team with no deal flow. They'll aggressively spend time on pitch work that goes nowhere instead. At least with live deals, you'll know the learning experience is worth it.  

 

Another bank with no plans on helping the problem incoming. Wouldn’t be surprised if they make the associate go back to work within a week and make them use vacation days too

 

Incoming Analyst in IB - Cov:

Working under a Desi MD has to be a nightmare

Forever convinced my hardest interviews were always with Desi or East Asian interviewers - consistently the most intense technicals and least margin for error. On the job, I’ve also found those same backgrounds often come with the highest expectations and the least patience. Being Asian (esp international) definitely complicates recruitment, but the ‘pull up the ladder after me’ mindset makes it feel even worse. It’s disappointing - there’s so much potential for mentorship that too often gets lost in projection or performance.

 

I wish there was a way to more publicly shame MDs like this. Man abused his employee, and gave a bull shit "drink water" as advice? This is the same advice a school nurse gives. Even if bankers don't care, this level of abuse would bring shame in any social circle outside of finance (assuming he has friends that aren't bankers, unlikely tho)


Even if he's fired he'll land on his feet somewhere else within a year and keep abusing.


All for the sake of reliving their "good old days where we had to send decks for comments via carrier pigeon"

 
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There have been a lot of deaths / hospitalization in the last couple of years. Why haven’t the MDs been sued personally? Perhaps they have, and we haven’t heard of it. Personal liability seems like the quickest way to change the incentive structure / change behavior. Maybe the bank would just step in to shield the MD. I can’t think of a better way to enact the quickest change—just wonder why it seems like it hasn’t been done

 

Prayers to the individual affected. Hope they are alright.

DB coverage groups are notorious for overworking their juniors despite lack of any real deal flow. You're up past 2-3am every night and having weekends blown up for pitches that go nowhere, just so seniors can justify their salary despite not providing any useful strategic advice to any corporates or sponsors. 

 
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So in little over a year, industry had the BofA death, the Jefferies associate death (sure, drugs were involved there but the hours and environment def didn't help), the whole Baird story, two GS industrials guys collapsing in the same week (one Chicago, one NYC), the Greenhill and Intrepid suicides, this DB hospitalization and prob a few others I'm missing. 

This industry's getting to be pretty fucked up.

 

Heard from people in the group they had someone in NYC collapse on the floor from several 4am/5am nights in a row. Don’t have much context on the Chicago person but heard it was a similar thing around the same time. Group apparently had a team meeting shortly afterwards where they mentioned they’re finally hiring. Team’s notorious even within GS for their extreme hours and seems they’re finally doing something about it by hiring more people

 

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