How bad is IB?

Hello monkeys,

I have heard some horror stories in IB. Yes the hours are long and brutal, but what really made you tick in general or one time. I just read a post where an MBA associate deleted the analysts models by accident and told the analysts to do it again to “get more reps in”.

Give me some good stories

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