FDD folks, do you work often over the weekends ? If yes, can you give an idea of how many weekends? I heard utilization rate was around 80-90% is it true ? Just trying to compare with audit hours.. thanks !

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Pre-covid, worked 3-5 weekends for the entire year (typically 2-3deals where you had to work 1-2 weekends). This past year was unprecedented with the amount of weekends worked but it has been better since the spring. 80-90% average utilization is accurate.

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Senior associate transfer - precovid it was a much better work load compared to audit. Interesting new work and good balance of fast paced work and downtime.

During covid /now = unprecedented nightmare of constant overtime.

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Damn good luck ! I hope it gets better

Senior manager, rarely work more than 30 mins over the weekend. past 14 months were crazy tho and involved a few full effort weekends

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most of my weekend work takes less than 30 mins, and consists of sending new data to India to process Sunday night, or replying to a couple emails. And my client base is primarily mega fund PE clients. I've had a handful of all out weekends this past year that were awful

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I would caution against using utilization to compare hours or workload. If you were in between deals for a week a month ago, it’s not like you can tap into that energy now in week 3 of a fire drill deal

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There’s a reason why theres unprecedented hiring right now. Lotta work. Probably two full weekends of work a month for the last 12

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