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Goldman Sachs Junior Analysts: The Work Is Destroying Us

BURNED OUT

The young bankers complain of 20-hour work days and abusive behavior.

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Junior bankers at Goldman Sachs say they have been pushed to the brink by supervisors who expect them to work up to 20 hours a day. The New York Post reports that a leaked slideshow presentation contains a litany of complaints from first-year analysts—one of whom remarked, “I’ve been through foster care and this is arguably worse.” Another wrote: “My body physically hurts all the time and mentally I’m in a really dark place.” Others said they were cursed out or yelled at by superiors. The investment firm says it has heard the recruits—whose are reportedly paid about $90,000—and is “taking multiple steps to address them.”

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