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Day in the Life of a Goldman Sachs Investment Banking Intern (THE HONEST TRUTH)



A Day in the life of an Investment Banking Intern at Goldman Sachs in the San Francisco office. Some of you have asked, so here’s a day in the life as an investment banking summer analyst at Goldman Sachs. It’s been many moons and the hours are slightly better now, but directionally everything is pretty much the same (presentations, models, long hours, etc.).

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0:00 Intro
0:12 My Goldman Sachs Resume and Cover Letter
0:22 What Investment Banks Do
0:27 Investment Bank Structure
0:37 Types of Deals
1:00 Pitching and Live Deals
1:37 Deal Team Structure
2:28 Day in the Life Overview
2:38 Getting Ready
3:09 Getting into the Office
3:22 Preparation
3:30 My Deal Teams
3:41 Pitch Meeting Prep
4:20 Presentation Shell
4:38 Lunch
4:53 IPO Team Meeting
5:19 Company Profiles
5:39 Spreading Financials
6:19 Dinner
6:42 Presentation Formatting
7:03 Roadshow and AVP
7:20 Checking Emails
7:27 Checking-in with Teams
7:43 Getting Ready for Bed
7:48 My Worst Day
8:28 My Best Day
8:42 Typical Week Hours
9:10 Hours by Geography
9:29 Internship Tips
10:02 My Goldman Sachs Resume
10:05 Why I left Banking

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44 comments
@edsworhfpg12

I hate it when people downplay IB as "Excel, word and PPT". Yes, those are the tools you use but what you're doing with those tools drive the conversation that ultimately leads to transactions happening. Thank you for not doing that. I was on IB for a while, mostly financing. Yeah, I spent a lot of time modeling but I wasn't a financial modeller.

@solomonshabat4542

Peter sir are you CFA charter ?

@junkdogray420

I understood about 2% of that.

@Thesupermachine2000

Damn, sounds like shit. Too bad your life looks like this

@mattjohn66

sounds shockingly boring and pointless.