What are your hours like?
Working 9am to 1-2am on weekdays (including Fri) and most weekends. Looking for funds with better hours.
Can you please comment anon and drop your hrs / fund name (if hrs good?)
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9 am to 11 on weekdays, with Fridays until 7-8 and 5-10 hours on weekends if you draw an average. Huge variance of course, on proper live deals it is pretty much 1-2 am every single day of the week, weekends included. So 70-80 hours. UMM fund
When there's no deal sprints or pressing work, 9am - 7pm, then head home and wrap up any work there (usually just checking email). Couple hours or more here and there on the weekends but not much.
If we're actively pursuing something, will normally be in from 8am-7pm, but then working at home till midnight or beyond. More hours on the weekends, although it's super variable (anywhere from a few hours to most of the weekend). Not much of a facetime culture.
UMM PE that most people on here consider to be a sweatshop / toxic.
Any chance you could share firm name?
UMM fund and have similar hours to the above. Would actually say mine are 8-6pm not on a deal. On a deal, I'm working until midnight with some weekend work
Same except I usually work until 8pm or 9pm when on a live deal. We have analysts that are decent.
At a MM fund.
9pm on a deal sounds like heaven... any chance you could share name?
Also sounds decent hours, would you be able to drop name?
Similar hours to OP at a MM fund, not consistently 1-2am Mon-Fri. A lot more variable, ranging from 11pm-2/3am any given day Mon-Thurs with Friday typically 7-9pm, weekend work not consistent but can easily add 10+ hours here and there. But almost never getting off before 10pm like some of the dudes above.
UMM PE:
Non-Deal:
M-Thursday: Consistent 9:30am-11pm with 2-3 hours of down time during the day
Friday: 9:30-8pm with 2 hours of downtime
Weekend: Either no work or 10-15 hours
Deal:
120-140 hours a week (no bullshit, was bad)
Can you DM me firm name?
120-140 hours?! how are you surviving?
45-50 hours M-F. Maybe 3 hours on Sunday to prepare for the next week. LMM in Tier 2 city.
Not sure what city you are in. But I am interested in Nashville. How do you think lmm would compare there in terms of hours/comp?
MF in NYC.
Anywhere from 60-70 hours if not on a new deal depending on portfolio.
During a live deal, 9am to 2/3am consistently during weekdays & 9am to 9pm on weekends for weeks on end (so 90-100+ hours).
Could you dm firm name?
To be very clear the lifestyle sucks dude I would not recommend
MF Special Sits
No deal rush
M-T: 9m to midnight (usually able to go home around 10ish, finish to dos until bed)
F: 9am to 8pm
S-S: few hours
probably all in all 70-80 in a chill week.
deal rushes at add ~2hrs to each day on weekdays and 9-5pm on weekends, so all in all 90-100hrs
Look, the problem with the buyside is not the hours, it’s the intensity of the hours. I have far more stress since I joined a fund than I ever had in banking.
It’s also definitely the hours…. 80 hours in a “chill” week sounds miserable regardless of what you’re doing during those hours
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