“I Was Not Eating, Showering, or Doing Anything Else”: Young Goldman Analysts Reveal Grueling Climb Up the Finance Ladder

An internal Goldman Sachs survey finds first-year analysts physically and mentally drained from working 95 hours—or more—a week and enduring an onslaught of criticism and unrealistic expectations. “Being unemployed is less frightening to me than what my body might succumb to,” says one.