As an intern, the work was extremely boring. Interns (at least in this division) were not treated well and learned almost nothing. Being relegated to cold-calling did little to teach me about the field I was interested in!

There is a lot of hard work; however, you do not constantly feel pressured. A person who works well and is efficient can easily go home for dinner almost every night. Merril is flexible in the sense that I can work from home and come in on the weekends to finish what I need to do.

We work extremely long hours at the office. I feel that we work longer hours than we really have to. The management wants you to stay in the office as long as possible; therefore, my team works a little slower so that we can stay at the office longer. We come into the office early and leave late just because it looks like we're working harder.

Long nights and weekend work. Investment Baning at Merril is just like any firm. You get very little credit for the hard work that you do - its just expected that you work hard.