How many hours, honestly?
I’ve accepted a JPM internship in Chicago for IB. Past interns, how much did you work, really?
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Well being that I am still a student I would like a little insight on the work/life balance as an intern so I can plan accordingly for my upcoming summer. I have things I need to take care of outside of work and would like to get a grip on how I will be able to do so.
Lets say it’d be better to deal with those things before the internship
I mean… have you not read any threads on IB WLB? Go in with bottom of the barrel expectations and anything better than that will be a bonus
Are you comfortable given us an idea what you have in mind that you need to take care of?
If it's something like PT or taking a family member to doctors appointments, it probably won't be an issue.
If you're asking for time off to study for the GMAT or something, that'll be a tougher conversation.
Don’t work in IB than
You’ll find out soon enough
Good luck
Work life balance during the summer?
All work no life
We take it much easier on summer analysts than analysts actually on the desk. We don't want to burn you out before you accept an offer.
That said, you should be striving to work the same hours as the analysts to win them over and get an accurate viewpoint of what the job entails. I would plan to work / be in office from 8:30am - 11:30pm Mon-Thurs, and 8:30am - 6:30pm on Fridays. That's 70 hours give or take + occasional weekend work but that's gone away in recent intern classes (you're welcome)
This is the way
Thanks for letting us know. I have a question: what hours do you think associates should be striving to work? I'm curious about how analysts compare with associates.
Summer associates should work harder than summer analysts - doesn’t necessarily mean longer hours so 70 hours makes sense. We expect more of them and it’s harder to convert to FT.
Thank you very helpful!
I will also add that for summer analysts this includes a healthy amount of Happy Hours and "fun events" at our bank.
9am to 2 pm Mon through Thursday
9 am to 9 pm Friday
Saturday and Sunday 1-2 hours each day or so.
9am - 2pm? This is where I want to work!
Worked at a BB for my SA. Was in a group with a lot of deal flow, so take that in mind, but I worked from around 8:30 to around midnight / 2AM.
Don’t know why you’re getting clowned, this is a perfectly valid question. The idea that you should go into a job and not inquire about work life balance is absolutely fucking stupid. Some of these hardos on this forum are insane.
It’s really group dependent. As a SA, you’re not gonna be all that useful because you don’t know shit about shit so some teams won’t see a point in keeping you around all day. There were a few times where I stayed late just to kinda be in the office for moral support and to show that I had a good attitude, but I left around 6pm on a lot of days. I think people genuinely got concerned if the SAs were working late consistently. Personally, now that I’m on the other side of the equation as a FT analyst, I would probably encourage the SAs to leave early. YMMV tho, I knew some people in other groups who were working really intense hours.
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