Associate Editor Susan Berfield interviews author David Bledin about his short and brutish career at an investment bank. Bledin quit after just a year at a bank he wishes not to name. He was done in by bullying bosses, the unpredictable demands of the job, and the long hours. He talks about how his discontent prompted a quarter-life crisis, what companies do wrong in dealing with Gen Y, and how recruiters don't adequately convey the reality of life as a first-year analyst
