I'm not sure how to disprove what you're saying, but I'm right around the age of these first year analysts and have friends working at top IB firms in similar p

I'm not sure how to disprove what you're saying, but I'm right around the age of these first year analysts and have friends working at top IB firms in similar positions, and 95 hours is usually the extreme end of what they work a week. It's always at least 85 hours, and has gone up to 100 - 105 hours. Yes, it is around 14 hours every day if not more, with some weekdays being closer to 17-18 hours. It's the nature of the industry. Much of the time they're paid to create similar models to stuff they've done in the past, it's not the MOST intellectually demanding job in terms of needing optimal creativity and brainpower. And a lot of the time it's just doing stuff like double checking numbers and rearranging reports.