"I slept beneath the desk at my banking internship and did not get an offer"
Working hours for interns in banks have crept back up again.
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Working hours for interns in banks have crept back up again.
Constant calls to express our passion, individual creativity, innovation and talents echo down through management structures.
In 2013, a Bank of America intern in London was found dead in a shower after working 72 hours straight. The 21-year-old, Moritz Erhardt, was one week from the end of his probationary period. Noting that Erhardt had suffered from epilepsy, a coroner’s inquest stopped short of blaming his employer. Anyone familiar with the way investment banking attracts ambitious young people and hazes them through hierarchical and status-conscious workplaces may have come to his own conclusions. But values differ. Rather than the company exploiting his son, Erhardt’s father told a reporter, Moritz had been...
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