Being real, how bad are Associate hours at a BB like MS? Considering moving to banking from consulting (out of MBA)

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I have some friends in IB at BB, so speaking from second-hand experience. It was definitely not common to see them on Friday or Saturday nights, like the rest of us 😊. I had heard from them it was anything between 60-100 hours depending on specific projects. But a lot of the time apparently was spent waiting on MDs to give feedback.

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