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Exactly this. When I was a junior investment banker we worked brutal hours, often 80-90 hours a week with most days ending at 1-2am. Yet the head of investment banking insisted we always make it to his Monday 8am meeting since he wanted a bigger crowd when he talked. Going from a Sunday all-nighter into this was quite painful.
Off topic question, but what do investment bankers even do for all those hours every week?
This column had some good insight: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-09-12/banker...