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Good deal flow, very sweaty, honestly this forum overstates how bad the culture is/maybe the culture improved. I am not saying it's the best culture, but not as bad as WSO made it seem when I started at Jeff. I will say that we have the best exits within the firm, though keep in mind that Jeff is still not a BB. The group had more deal flow than anything at DB for example but based on the data I have seen DB best group(sponsors) exit roughly similarly to us(mostly MM with rare UMM/MFs). Don't get me wrong, it's a great experience in terms of deal flow and having good exits relative to the firm, but it's lacking in terms of sweatiness to exits. Also, our firm internally has a weird obsession with comparing to DB mostly because we are just above them globally + in NA and they are considered a BB, it's kinda BS since they are the worst of the traditional BB's.

I understand you are A0, but mentioning exits here since in some ways it's a proxy of how headhunters/PE view groups and firms.

 

Analysts work like 70-90 hours and this is in the present not super hot market, the number is most likely closer to the 80-100 range for otherwise. You're worked like a dog, but again great deal of experience and good exits relative to the rest of the firm. Associates are like 5-10 hours or so lower depending on the associate/staffings/deal flow at the time. I am giving 70-90 as a range, but it's usually closer to the 70 number rather than 90, the 90+ hour weeks are truly only when deep in a live deal.

 
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