Wall Street Oasis presents an exclusive interview with a potential Alexi Vayner. For those of you that need some background click here. Feel free to download the audio file attached. Here are some of the quotes / highlights from the interview:
"I'm not going to lie...I don't specifically remember what my mindset was at the time. It was an attempt to get people to to look at my resume that wouldn't normally look at my resume....My resume isn't even that good"
"...That's the best thing. at first I was getting like gags and things like, "Hey Bro! What stocks should I buy!" but now I've been getting messages, "Maybe you should divert your motivations to something a bit more real", with some good advice"
"Goldman Sachs is just the one that got leaked...all my other applications were roughly similar...I had more extreme ones"
"Right now, I've been doing a good buy and hold thing...I dont want to be doing 10 trades a day"
"I dont know what is going on behind the scenes, at the Big Leagues, ...I think this is a bunch of first year guys, a bunch of message board trolls. If the Big Players are talking about me...or laughing at it, it doesn't bother me because I am probably suited better for a smaller firm anyways"
Brilliant. Thanks!
The audio isn't loading well...any advice?
Yea, I tried. It lasts only for 9 seconds then it stops.
It stops after 9 secs for me too
i'm having the same problem. can't get past the 9 second mark, even when i try to download it.
lol@the government invades my privacy every single day
odd. it's working for me using chrome and firefox. are you guys right clicking and saving it as a .wav file? It is 12.5MBs
Thanks, Patrick
I downloaded it into my computer and played it using WMP. Worked perfectly for me.
I downloaded it and it works perfectly fine for me.
Wow this guy is hilarious. He thinks he's a money manager being interviewed by larry king. Great stuff.
I wasn't very impressed by the interview. Jeremy sounded a lot more like a frat boy than he did a professional. If that was the way he conducted a job interview, I'd fear that he wouldn't get past many first rounds. I do understand his tactic for trying to secure an interview, it's a shame that it backfired and he ended up smeared across the internet. If it doesn't get him a job, hopefully it will at least get him laid by some chick looking to say she slept with the "infamous Jeremy King" !!!
If he ever falls on hard times he can always sell autographed copies of that cover letter
Would love for WSO to assemble a panel with Jeremy King, Jeff Chiang, Alexey Vayner and others
Any chance you could elaborate. I think it would be helpful to us to know what NOT to sound like during phone interviews :D
There is no way this guy can get past a first round interview.
If that's how he conducts himself in actual interviews, he hasn't done much damage to his chances of getting a job on WS.
How do you download this? I am using Chrome.
just right click on the file name below the quotes and select "save as"
It didn't download properly for me (it only downloaded the first 390 kB or something), but I opened the link in Chrome's incognito window, and it worked just fine.
He's wrong. He is a liar. He claims doing this for every other bank yet every cover letter says "Goldman or nothing". Aka, MS or nothing, BAML or nothing, JPM or nothing, etc. This is a blatant lie and I'm sure he has many many others.
He should be blacklisted along with the other liars.
LOL @ his government analogy. I guess private firms have the same rights as the publically elected government. Definitely deserving of his 1100 SAT score.
He is incoherent, lol that whole shpeel on making 10% blah blah blah is hilarious.
"I go to UF, cause it's UF."
The painfully awkward 'fair enough's by the interviewer just exemplify the terrible conversation this kid carries.
"I've started actually reading books and doing real research, ya know..."
Jeremy, has UF addressed you on this yet? Be it the career center, a professor, any form of administration?
and stop saying "bro" the whole time, it's annoying.
Reminds me of that "bro vs. douche" thread
Finally, it worked. Wow. UF, this is a new low.
Kudos to Patrick and the team for setting this up.
One question I have is...do you think this interview may have actually hurt his "chances" more?? IMOH, I think so.
yeah i couldnt open it either, but use chrome and open in incognito window and works like a charm...dont know why but it does
btw, this guy sounds so unprofessional...its like hearing one of those surfer dudes which are always like "yo man wazzup" . Even if he was to get into banking, he couldnt last based on what ive heard
Who's interviewing him?
Honestly, what do you expect someone to say when you ask them why they went to their state school? That was quite a setup to embarrass him, from my point of view, especially knowing the audience of this website.
Kudos to Patrick
haha this was def enjoyable. I have to give him credit though. He got his name out there like he said. I don't think he is any big intellect, but then again you don't need to be to be a trader. Somebody throw this kid a bone. Any Florida wealth managers out there?
1st round + "like..." and/or "you know???" = No 2nd round.
I don't believe the question regarding why he went to a state school was a set-up, but based on the answer the gentlemen didn't have a valid reason. Overall I don't think he was professional enough nor does he really respect the industry or the game.
Give him credit because he got his name out there? I remember senior year of high school when this girl got so drunk she shit herself at a party, slipped on the diarrhea she had deposited on the floor and managed to make herself an even bigger mess. She got her name our there as well.
This kid was pretty stupid to do this interview having been so poorly prepared. He's still, for the most part, pretty clueless. Its obvious his cover letter was NOT intentionally ridiculous and was his genuine pitch. That being said, he should have capitalized off the his notoriety and played the satire card. Had he tried to bill himself as a part Leveraged Sellout, part Ali-G... he would have actually gained something from all this ridicule, and those who actually believed him would think it was quite genius.
People actually set the stage, on this forum, by giving him more credit than he deserves and he couldn't even capitalize from it. Had he actually read this forum and what was being said about him and his situation, perhaps his answer to "are you pursuing any legal action for invasion of privacy?" wouldn't have been "is that illegal? doesn't the government invade my privacy all the time?" What a complete fucking idiot. Seriously? Something doesn't have to be illegal to sue someone for damages, which he is obviously incurring (although judging from the competence he's exhibited, those damaged are minimal). Second, as controversial as it is, government invasion of privacy is (lets not get into a debate) premised under the rouse of 'national security', this was motivated by an alleged group of professionals ridiculing a college kid.
While my first response was somewhat sympathetic, I think he largely deserves to be ridiculed. Not at the outset, but now, after the fact... having learned absolutely nothing from the whole situation.
This kid is absolutely a disgrace to higher education. People who don't even have GED's can converse better than he does. The "like's" and 'you know's" are getting out of hand. What's more embarrassing is that I know plenty of international students who can express themselves better than this kid born and raised in the states.
"I do go UF.. cuz it's UF man, heh heh"... - ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? Anything man, anything would be better than this response.
"Hey bro I made 10%" - The surfer dude way to conveying a message is not the most effective...
He is dumb enough to glance over the fact that he doesn't have the right to sue whoever leaked his cover letter and resume, good job on just throwing away a few million there kid.
I have lost all respect for UF. Judging from his shitty SAT's and this interview, a 3rd grader in elementary school can get a 3.92 at UF.
Was that Patrick interviewing him ?
What I don’t get here is that this wasn’t supposed to be a “job” interview, right? Why are most of you guys evaluating his way of speaking from the perspective of an interviewer? I realize that the way how he conducted this interview seems weigh too casual and weigh too laid back. But again, this isn’t a job interview…
No one expected him to act as if it were a job interview, but the fact that this was his opportunity to 'set the record straight' and he still sounds like a complete fucking doofus, is telling. So while people may have initially given him the benefit of the doubt, that doubt no longer exists.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
What a disgrace. I feel sorry for that kid.
And shame on the University of Florida. What a demonstration of loose admission standards!
Marcus aka Abe Lincoln is right. true the interview was informal, but he still should have sounded more mature. im sure he will be writing a book sometime soon, he should workout a deal w/ WSO for a discounted online download.
hey guys i dont see the link to download the file?? has it been removed lol
wheres the audio file?
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