A young Goldman Sachs analyst from India was chasing the American dream. His new job at the storied investment firm made relatives swell with pride, and the 22-year-old recruit wrote up lists of gifts to buy with his future wealth.
But after months of working close to 100-hour weeks, Sarvshreshth Gupta was dead. His father said the job ended up eating him alive.
“This job is not for me,” Gupta told his dad before he died in April, apparently of suicide. “Too much work and too little time. I want to come back home.”
A graduate of the prestigious University of Pennsylvania, Gupta was armed with two degrees and buoyed by a Goldman job offer after his May 2014 graduation.
The New Delhi native quickly moved to San Francisco, where he would join Goldman’s telecommunications, media, and technology group—a position requiring a string of all-nighters that became too much to bear.
[For more of this story, written by Kate Briquelet, go to http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...g-young-bankers.html]
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