I was wondering what you all take off here for vacation. I've read some threads in the past that said they took zero days off during the 2 year analyst stint, however it seems like some companies have taken a more WLB approach to IB over the last few years. How many days do you guys take off? How many are you allowed?
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~15. 5-7 in the summer. ~3 around the year end. A few sporadically throughout the year.
15-20. Couple in the summer and one during winter holidays and then a few days spread out on events
Think I end up at like 10-15 business days by year end. I am a huge proponent of taking Fridays off to get a three-day weekend and so I'll scatter a bunch across my calendar throughout the year and then take like two "actual" vacations where I am having contiguous work days off and traveling somewhere remote. I'll admit though, I still have a hard time plugging out and will inevitably have my phone on me during those real vacations with email notifications still live because I get really nervous about missing stuff. And the truth is I never actually end up missing anything that material so I've just got to get it out of my head that I could potentially be missing out on work.
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Do they let you take all of it in EU for real
yeah man. and you can usually carry over ~5 days if left unused.
Working in the EU, can confirm. Took 30 days as a first-year analyst. Although most colleagues took a bit less and carried the rest over to next year
My bank does 2 protected weeks a year and then also gives us semi-protected federal holidays. So like you are not supposed to be assigned more work/don’t have to work unless it’s live/urgent.
I like it. The clients I work with also didn’t work over the winter holidays, so I essentially got another 1.5 weeks off of doing almost nothing.
Which bank?
We have this exact policy - not sure how common so he might be with us :)
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None. (FT Partners analyst btw)
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