How hard is it to get fired in this industry if you really do not care? I am talking about doing the bare minimum, not being responsive on weekends, leaving early every day during the week, etc.
Any stories of truly horrible analysts you have worked with?
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With the current market, probably pretty easy.
Will be dependent on your bank culture, I guess.
I knew a bank where an analyst was giving a pretty bad job and clearly showed a lack of commitment,
One day, his team was told that they would have a difficult weekend, because they had to prepare lot of documents before Monday morning (and it was Friday afternoon).
The guy literally said 'OK guy, have a nice weekend :)', left the call, and turned off his phone.
He was fired the next week.
In another bank that had a softer culture, I was told there was a guy who did not show most interest in the job and had the habit of disappearing,
One day, they received a lot of work to do. The guy literally told them 'sorry, I can't help you, I took some days off to go skiing'
Sometimes, he would just disappear out of the blue, and casually come back to the office as if nothing happened
He did the same tricks 3 or 4 times before eventually being fired
Would likely be pushed out very quickly. It's one thing to not work "overtime" (i.e. not turning pitch comments at 1am if the pitch is in a week, slow to respond on weekends but still gets work done eventually) - they will keep you around for bitch work or very slow pitches with a $0 or low bonus, but if you are just not doing the work period, you will be let go within a few months.
Interesting because a lot of advice I read on WSO says to purposefully not turn those 1 am pitch comments (assuming the pitch is a week or more away) or to be a little slower responding to weekend emails, so you don’t get burnt out while still being able to land mid-bucket
Yeah I actually reread that when I posted + was going to edit that and say a few days away, but the filter flagged the post because of the swear word so I couldn't haha
I agree with you (as long as you're communicating to team and not disappearing), generally meant not staying up late on unnecessary things
F*ck around and find out
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