I am curious what the typical EB meal policy looks likes. I have a friend right now at PWP who says they are not allowed to order overtime meals to their home addresses, despite WFH being mandated for most of their advisory groups.
This is hugely concerning to me as a potential lateral candidate (in middle of process with them and a few other boutiques). Can someone please provide some more data points on other boutiques? TIA.
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All advisory firms are helping with food/ Uber after certain times. Also they’re paying you enough to where it shouldn’t matter lol
PWP is an anomaly then, I think most boutiques let you order OT dinner to your home addresses. I know that's for sure the case with Lazard, CVP, HL.
What’s the policy with laz and HL?
At CVP we get $40 for dinner every night, as well as a lunch stipend. Makes working 15 hours a day (even if it's from home) more tolerable.
If this is true for PWP not sure how their juniors are surviving lol
How have the hours been in terms of per week?
Does anybody anything about EVR???
Yeah, its still $30, but even though we were back 3 days a week since Sept, the wfh meal policy never changed (ie you can expense delivery meals regardless of location)
fwiw... JPM just bumped their OT meal stipend from 25 ---> 30
Guggenheim is only allowing dinners to be delivered to the office (no takeout) after 9pm. Absolutely ridiculous and all the junior team is fed up with the policy.
I thought we could order any time after 5:30 and just had to stay until after 9:00? Hopefully expense team doesn’t read this…
Guggenheim is only allowing dinners to be delivered to the office (no takeout) after 9pm. Absolutely ridiculous and all the junior team is fed up with the policy.
Clearly they're not fed with the policy when working from home.
Sorry, I had to LMAO. MS is welcome.
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9 PM? That's absurd.
Mistake on my part. 9pm is for Ubers. Dinner needs to be after 8pm though.
Gugg's policy sucks. Haven't expensed a dinner in months.
I heard 9pm was only for a ride home (my roommate works there). From what I've seen he's ordered dinner at the office every night before he gets back. Usually he eats, works a bit, waits until the 9pm threshold, ubers home, then finishes his days work from home
There's overtime in banking?
Not true for PWP. Interns and Analysts ordered to house the entire summer.
How are hours at PwP ?
I've heard hours can be rough
@ECM GUY can you please stop commenting on every PWP thread? It's painfully obvious you work in HR, and to be frank you aren't doing the firm any favors.
Maybe read the recent threads on compensation and perks at other EB's and try to advocate for analysts a bit more? Dropped the ball completely this past bonus cycle for analysts, and now juniors can't even order food to their personal addresses...
The policy has changed - for the last few months we haven't been able to order to our personal addresses.
Does anyone know about WF?
Interned there from the summer. I’m pretty sure they can’t expense if they are home. Could have changed since then.
Who gives a shit. PWP's comp is > 10k higher than their peers. Even if they don't cover it, wouldn't you rather get paid 10k more vs. get 5-6k worth of meals reimbursed throughout the year?
I dunno about others but I expense $35 every weeknight + $70 on Sundays (get all 3 meals comped on weekends when we work). Works out to approx $12,740 in tax-free meal expenses per year, which post-taxes is like $20k extra comp.
EB? Haven’t heard of 3 meals on weekends being comped
This is bullshit. I want my food.
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Can confirm about PWP. Everybody is pissed about that.
Can anyone confirm what meal policies like at a bank like JEF
Anybody know Rothschild
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35 dollars if you stay past 8pm (can order earlier if you know you're staying late) whether in office or at home. Can do take out or delivery, up to you.
Any insight on Moelis?
22 GBP or 25 EUR or 30 USD wherever you are at. Two meals on weekends. Allowed to order at home atleast in emea. Not sure about US
London vat gonna getchu
Anything on Credit suisse?
This might be off topic but I was told by a friend there that at CS even coffee isn't free. He has to pay for coffee on a daily basis. I feel that is just BS.
Have a friend at PWP can confirm no one can expenses meals to home address. What a joke.
Agreed
Any info on HL? Is it different in m&a and rx?
No, it was $40 over the summer no questions asked for dinner. $20 for lunch on Sundays. Lunch was served through the week in office.
A leaked WF deck a while back details meal stipend amounts for a bunch of banks: https://www.instagram.com/p/CM3nUvHg50P/
It says that PWP does but people here are saying that they don’t.
Hasn’t been price updated
the deck is a year old
Any Info on Nomura's meal policies?
Free OT meals are the only reason I went into IB
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