Young Goldman Sachs bankers ask for 80-hour week cap
Throughout my professional career, I&#x27;ve worked as an engineer for the buy-side (arguably better work-life balance compared to sell-side, i.e. banks). More often than not, I was working under a manager&#x2F;team lead that made it abundantly clear to the team that one &quot;will not progress in the company if they think they can leave everyday at 5pm&quot;. I&#x27;ve also had a manager who was speechless to find out that we did not, in fact, sign waivers that meant we give up regular working hours and can therefore be forced to work long hours every day or on the weekends.<p>Funnily enough, I can&#x27;t count the number of times I had an interview and the interviewer described the company as the &#x27;Google of Finance&#x27;, with an emphasis on work-life balance. It couldn&#x27;t be further away from the truth in my experience. Management in the financial industry is unfortunately still plagued with people who think that more working hours is perfectly correlated with more productivity.