Working in Menlo Park as a 22 year old
As someone interested in tech I find a lot of great opportunities are in Menlo Park. Is it possible to live in San Francisco and work in Menlo Park if you have PE analyst or banking analyst hours?
For example, MS Tech sounds incredible, but I couldn’t live in Menlo as a young 20 year old. I’d have to commute from SF. And I suppose consistently working 9am to 2am and then driving an extra hour a day wouldn’t be feasible. Has anyone done this or had a similar experience? From what I’ve heard, living in Menlo seems like too big a sacrifice for any job, no matter how good.
if you're that picky about where you want to live, i think you should choose where you want to live and then find a job near there.
if you're working banking hours in menlo park, living in SF is unreasonable. you'd never get to sleep. if you want to get to menlo park by 9am, you'd have to leave SF by 8am and hope traffic isn't heavy. at 2am, you'd be able to get into the city in about 40 minutes. so that's approximately 2 hours per day you're giving up. and you'd probably want to live close to the highway as in SOMA or the mission, which are only OK neighborhoods to begin with (though it depends on what you are looking for in a neighborhood).
i know plenty of young people living in menlo park and palo alto, though they all mainly stanford grad students.
my buddy works in Menlo for Barcap and lives in SF ... he does it
works for MS tech in Menlo and he is getting transferred to the NY office after working there for 15 months or so b/c he disliked living in Menlo/Palo Alto as a young 20 something year old.
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Thanks for the insight. I was hoping on the West Coast the hours might be better allowing analysts to commute. But that doesn't seem to be the case.
I can't imagine who would ever want to be an analyst in MS tech if you actually have to live in Menlo. I'm guessing it's all Stanford kids.
I've got a couple friends that work in Menlo and live in San Francisco (one at MS and another in PE at KKR). From speaking to them, i know that a lot of young people in Menlo actually commute from San Fran and don't have a problem. That being said, there are those that also prefer to stay close and live in Menlo. A big misconception though is that banking or PE hours are consistently 9 am to 2 am. People toss that out frequently, but as someone working in large cap PE right now (former BB banking), I can tell you that that's not the case.
how much better is the job than your other options? If it's MS tech vs. say a BofA / barclays / cs, i'd take it. MS tech and M&A consistently places into the top PE firms and HFs (think KKR, Apollo, Silver Lake, etc.) - do what will set up your career best.
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