With great power comes great responsibility.
Some MDs in BAML do not derserve their pay. They are not doing any actual work, frequently out of office for personal reasons, and take credit for jobs they didn’t do.
They were unable to bring resources necessary for their team, and blame their team for jobs not done. Besides yelling at people, they don’t have any real talent.
Often, these MDs have close relationship with Head Trading / Sales in their division.
Nepotism is how they survived from layoff.