UBS GIG, LevFin, FSG Interns working Sundays and 85 hour weeks their first week?
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UBS intern here, don’t know about GIG and FSG but LF can confirm. Apparently they got staffed really hard and have homework due tomorrow
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The FSG full-times don't do any work, how are the interns doing 85 hour work weeks? I can beleive GIG and LF. If you are joining UBS for internship or FT, you should look to recruit on-cycle if you cannot re-recruit for FT. The only chances at a solid exit are on-cycle. The longer you wait, the higher the expectation for you to have actually done a relevant deal.
wdym recruit on cycle? for PE or to lateral to another IB? what is the differnece between recruiting on cycle vs re-recruiting
First step is get return offer. Once you get that you should recruit for a full-time position at a better bank. Since markets are not the best and people think AI will take junior jobs, it is very unlikely to get a lateral FT offer in this market. If you end up having to accept UBS, would highly advise you to prepare for PE the moment you hit the desk. Be a grinder for ~6 months, get something you can talk about in your interviews, and then spend all your time recruiting for PE. The longer you stay at UBS, the more limiting it is.
We have uncapped hours shits literally free money lmao, ubs unironically paradise in top group
My group caps at 85
UBS struggling:
-Makes it harder to recruit so you are perpetually understaffed (lean team = lean sleep)
-Makes it harder to win deals so you are chasing hard for what will end up being throw away work
-Makes it much more likely you work for MDs who don’t know how to win, more likely to put in high effort to scapegoat eventual predictable loss later
UBS - Banking is our craft
Unironically the play is to run up a bunch of 100 hr weeks as an intern, get that sweet overtime $, get the return offer - then go somewhere else lmfao
Yeah, you prob could farm like 40-50k in one summer.
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If ur on smth live yeah you might work on Sunday, culture is pretty chill otherwise. Ur not getting grinded to death on pitches unless ur in M&A or M&T / another equally shit group
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