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At BBs and most boutiques in the US, analysts sit in cubes that are condensed into clusters. Associates might get a similar space or slightly upgraded "corner cubes", depending on the bank. I would love to have some more privacy but it's not in the cards for me.
Actually, the privacy I'm experiencing is making the job a little boring. The setting doesn't allow communication unless you get up walk around to the next cubicle.. I did get away with watching an episode of Seinfeld last week so heh heh heh, guess there are some benefits.
At some banks, they will cut the tops off of the cubicles. Everyone will have their own desk space, but you can see/talk to the guy sitting next to you.
I personally find low cubes really distracting. If I'm trying to get a lot of work done, it's really tough to focus with people interjecting with conversation/walking around all the time.
in my office, the analysts gather around in those 4 squares, whereas the associates get their own office. It's kinda weird sometimes being the only one in the sqare but i guess the privacy and the fact you probably won't get caught doing anything(meebo, sports game, etc) is good. This is for a small office with a lot spaces though
On a side note, are you guys always in your cubes or do you get to sit in on client meetings, how often?
The associates here get to go sit in on meetings with clients - analysts don't which kinda sucks.
As an analyst in Analytics, I was invited to a couple of meetings with the firm's institutional trading clients to help explain how we were calculating the risk and price numbers on credit derivatives. It helped that I was friends with a lot of people on the firm's quant sales team and that my manager was pretty chill about letting me do that kind of stuff when they asked me to tag along.
If you become the defacto expert on a certain area that comes up a lot in the transactions you work on and your manager finds himself needing to explain this kind of stuff at meeting with clients, he might just invite you to tag along if he trusts you.
You're 22 years old; other 22-year olds are steering aircraft carriers in the Navy or acting as the only thing between technology systems running smoothly and the entire firm not getting its risk numbers on commodities derivatives in technology groups; surely they can trust a 22-year old to help at a meeting with a client without embarassing them.
Lol there are also 22 year olds helping CEOs of major corporations make decisions that could affect the lives of dozens of thousands of people (MBB).
You cannot be serious.
I'm not 22. I'm actually 19.
Hes an intern
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