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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Here are some other helpful videos on investment banking recruiting:
Nischa: A Day In My Life As An Investment Banker (THE HONEST TRUTH)

Kenji Explains: Day in the Life of a Goldman Sachs Investment Banking Intern NYC

rareliquid: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN INVESTMENT BANKING ANALYST - A Good Day vs. A Bad Day

Brian Ariyo: Day In The Life of an Investment Banking Intern

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[chriswalter]

Private equity sounds like a mechanism that extracts the most amount of value from a business, and transfers that wealth to the few general partners.
Everyone loses - the business, the employees, the local consumers, the tax payers.... except for the general partners

[bjamoliver]

Let’s see Paul Allen’s day in the life of

[johndeanconway]

Big ups to everyone working effortlessly trying to earn a living while building wealth. My wife and I we are both retired with over $2 million in net worth and all paid off debts. living smart and frugal with our money, made it possible for us this early, even till now we earn passively with our asset coach.
Adapt to a lifestyle, be thrifty, set a budget, save money and build more streams.

[QMiller]

I was an I-Banker, on the admin side, for SG. You did a great service, with this video, to any young person considering this career path! Very accurate. Now if you could just add the daily pressure!

[PeterSu]

If you want to improve your cover letter, you can download free templates of my Goldman Sachs Resume and Cover Letter here:

[Richard-xpxr]

This is actually one of the best financial videos(day in the life) I have seen in a long time. Good stuff!

[ppotwoo]

Loved this video! To the point and engaging. Keep it up!

[WarloyJenkins]

I did a summer internship online that was supposed to be (part-time) with a smaller investment bank, and let me tell you I was working easily over 8 hours a day during the week almost every day. I'm glad I did it though, I would probably have had some regret about not trying to get into investment banking full time if I hadn't done it.

Now I'm probably looking at some more mathematical/statistical types of roles within finance like a data scientist/analyst or actuary.

[andylutz]

great video brotha! now I know what my IB friends were up to whenever they said "no" to nighttime social events for several years out of college lol

[MrChow-vhep]

"Love yourself, love others" ... I love that.

[mamaboy]

The sad thing about this is that you do all this work and when its time for layoffs, the company doesn't look at hours worked, but rather if you fit into the budget or not. I've seen this occur on numerous occasions.

[brokescholar]

yo so helpful, clear, engaging, thank you for the funny inserts and visualizations Peter!

[simplyandco]

The edit is sleek! Congrats @Peter Su!

[kalunnanna-dcss]

Hi Peter. Thank you for the great video. I really want to ask how your resume looked like before you landed your first internship. What were the activities you had that made you stand out to companies?

[nccamsc]

IB is not worth the sacrifice anymore. Not to mention that GS’ reputation took multiple huge hits in the last 15 years - the subprime scandals, the Malaysian scandal, etc.

[samyaktagde]

Really enjoyed watching this video, got to know lot of information about the life on investment bankers. It was funny to see how you all the team are on the same boat literally. 😂

[justinhuang]

Thanks for sharing. Literally vivid getting to know what's like to be working in there

[qijia]

Luckily I was able to shadow you back in the day. I am proud that I still stick with the work ethic you passed down to me, and that's how I've trained my associates. (Except I once yelled at one of them for missing the call notes.) You'd be surprised how many times I heard them telling the interns about the importance of being accountable... but in a much nicer way just like you did. 🤣🤣🤣

[darcyarzate]

@ Peter Su I would be curious to know your perspective on how the recent innovations in automation tools could help with the everyday responsibilities of an analyst. Can you dive into that? What in retrospect could've saved you hours if you had those tools?

[Altair]

Beautiful video brother. May the risen Lord bless you and your family