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Where I am, SA come in between 8:30 and 9:00
8:30 is a pretty decent time to start. Most other people will be showing up between 9 and 10. So showing up at 8:30 will give you a head start on turning comments. Decreasing marginal returns if you show earlier. Remember that if you're the first person there, no one knows how early you showed up but you.
So FT analysts can come in after 9?
Depends on your group. S&T / Cap markets typically shows up between 6:30 and 8:30. Corp Fin I've seen between 8:30 and 10:30.
I usually come in around 9:30-10:00, later if I'm tired or hungover.
banking hours are so late. i'm in at work at 7 every morning. half of my office is here when i arrive. i work in houston.
Whatever you do, don't do what this girl from Cornell did in my 2006 SA program where she asked all of the kids from her school to meet her an hour early so they would make a good impression for Cornell. Then angrily texted people when they didn't show.
Ha, the best part about this is that they just straight up blew her off.
I dislike people like that.. I would 'usually' arrive fashionably late (9:45-10), take an hour for lunch + another hour for coffee and leave rather early (before midnight) and still received a return offer. Another intern in my group however would arrive by 9:00 and always stay late (2:00-3). He was in the army and was accustomed to waking up early though. He also got a FT offer.
One of them was my roommate. When we got off the subway with some of his college classmates, their phones started buzzing nonstop for the next minute as they downloaded several text messages. Classic.
You should arrive at the time that allows you to take of your jacket and turn on your computer before anyone else arrives. So around 5-10 min before the first guy in your office. Good compromise between sleep and making a good impression.
Came in at 6.30 every morning as a S&T analyst and left at 5. Those were the good days!
Better idea.. leave a jacket on your chair at all times.. and arrive at 9:30am (no jacket on, obviously) with a notebook full of notes and look really stressed. Everyone will think you just came back from a meeting with a lot of things to do.
But this depends on if you work with multiple "bosses" and teams or not. If not, you will just look stupid and useless.
I imagine this would only work if you were one of the last to leave the office the night before.
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