What are your hours like these days?
Curious what people’s hours are like and what type of group you’re in.
Think this year I’ve averaged about 60-65 hours weekly. In a mm tech group. Asso 1
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An2 at an EB.
85-90 hrs/week this year
That’s rough buddy sorry to hear..
I’m in M&A at a regional boutique.
Do about 55-65 hours usually.
Tech M&A for a boutique and it’s been chill, around 50.
An 2 at EB, average 90-100 hour weeks. Good weeks were maybe 75 hours. Complete sweatshop.
First year in m&a at a mm. 50ish hours on more chill weeks, goes up to 65ish in more stressful times. On 2 deals and a pitch usually
Holy shit that’s a cheat code. What firm?
rt, need firm name
How are you all working such light hours (I’m obviously jealous) ?
Wild but congrats
Fellow ASO1 at a MM bank. ~65-70hrs on average with a couple 85-90hr weeks sprinkled in this year.
An3 at MM consumer: 70s-80s and on two live deals
AS3 at upper MM / lower EB type firm.
90-100 average this year. Chillest week was maybe 75-80. It’s sweaty over here.
Jesus banking is brutal I think I've been averaging 60-65 hrs a week this year (MF)
MF is even more brutal. My sister is at a MF and is easily averaging 90-100 hours / week at sr associate level
Is it Jefferies?
gulagesque. good news is I can tell people i’m working 9-5, bad news is it’s 9am - 5am :(
An2 TMT EB. 80-110 with most weeks closer to 90
Is it a lot of pitching or are you still trying to figure out the job?
Multiple simultaneous live deals and very lean teams with some intermittent pitches. Would say I’ve been fully ramped up for a while
Middle market, midwest a2. 55-65 hrs most weeks, a few longer ones here and there
Is this a brand name MM (Baird, Blair, HL) or regional? Sounds peachy
A2 doing ECM. ~55 hr per week this year, around 60-70ish when I was an A1
100-120/week P&U
What size firm?
Lazard?
I get it's "cool" to say you work these kinda hours but I highly doubt that your average weekly hours are 110.
Read on another thread RBC PUI analyst quit after working till 5 am 7 days a week..
Heard from few other people in PU that analysts are grinded to no end. So, might not necessarily be lying.
Goddamn son
Currently an aso in ecm. I work about 50-55 hrs on most weeks, not much weekend work.
EB Rx getting slammed. 90-110
MM, Probably online like 60-70 hours a week but average 5-10 hours of downtime in there waiting for comments or twiddling thumbs
guess not altogether surprising that larger banks that are more reliant on financing to drive M&A are see a reduction in volumes whereas EBs are not as much
I’m a second year at a mm consumer team. About 60-65 hours weekly but can vary quite a bit on a weekly basis. In the summer I was probably only working around 40 hours on average
I’m at Houlihan Lokey - so never less than 100 hours a week. Death would be a release.
As soon as lateral markets open up again, this firm is dead. Morale here is at all time lows. Everyone is working a ton of hours, we have MDs who are telling us to go get adderall prescriptions so we can stay up, and HR openly brags about it being an “employers market”
Modern Houlihan makes Moelis look like a vacation.
Can someone confirm this, actually insane
Heard the same from someone in the Dallas group.
Stopped networking at HL lol.
Can confirm, one of my friends is saying similar things in Chi, also in minneapolis
Jesus Christ. Praying for u
MM bank. 14 months on the desk. Have averaged 80-90 for the first 5-6 months and 65-70 for the past 8-9 months. Been nice. On two active deals and 2-3 pitches.
AN1 C&R EB
75 hours / week
An3 MM - 80-90 with most around 90
Now AN2 at Lmm boutique industrials, on 4 live deals. 50-55 hours a week. Started at 80 hours, learning quickly and not doing any pitching helps.
No pitching rn in LMM? How do you guys get solid deal flow with no pitches? A few old colleagues went downstream to LMM and they're pitching like crazy rn
Referrals
Sounds like tm capital
Top BB
~60 hours per week, sometimes a lot more if live deal demands it, but lifestyle group
That’s solid
I’ve been at 90 hours since about June. TMT.
ASO2 at MM. 55-65 with some weeks above that. On 3 deals with a pitch here and there.
How’d your hours change from when you first started at stub aso/ ASO0 to now, or if you started at analyst then from that point?
Started as Analyst. Hours were 70-80 at the start but have gradually gotten better each year.
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