Non-target story where I landed a good offer. Moral though is Non targets if you’re reading this: This process is much harder than most believe. Do not underestimate the amount of luck involved which means you need to have the part you control 100% down. Stories, technical, fit questions, brainteasers all of it. I came very close to not succeeding. You might have only 1 shot and you need to convert it.
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| +16 | Got an Offer - Thank you | 9 | 1d | |
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Haha I'm not sure if I'm deserving of a mention, but I'm really happy for you man. Congrats!
Shoot me a PM once you get situated. I'll buy you a round.
@"zeroblued" - Amazing story and way to hustle!
Great stuff, congrats!
Happy to hear it worked out. Your persistence really paid off- I remember 1+ year ago when you were just getting situated on here- have definitely come a long way since then. Congratulations.
Congrats buddy.
Way to go OP. Congrats.
Awesome outcome, glad things worked out for you.
On a side note, its very interesting to see your cold email stats. I was taking a similar approach circa-2008/2009. My cold e-mail count was closer to 800. Responses: less than 15. Of those ~15, responses that were "thanks for reaching out but we're in a hiring freeze": 14. Of the remaining 1 that called me in for an interview: 1. And that ended up being my first banking gig... so just goes to show all you need is one bite.
Anyway... glad I could help and keep up the drive and energy and this is just the beginning.
Congrats!
Way to go my man!
Congrats! Good to hear things worked out for you.
Great story! Congrats.
so glad to see how this turned out after hearing all the struggles you went through, glad me and pat could help you out!
Congrats!
Well done, you deserve it! See you at Happy Hour.
Nice work.
Thanks for sharing your story and congrats!
Well done! Congrats!
@"zeroblued" Consensus seems like you had some pretty great response rates during your cold emailing. Could you provide me and the community with the typical email you would send out or if it was individualized to each company how you would go about deciding the content to include.
Thanks
and congrats!
Congrats! This is almost exactly my story except I went into S&T.
Congratulations. Glad you found anything I've shared here helpful. Good luck over the summer.
Inspirational thanks!
Hoping I can share a success story like this once I get my next job! Inspiring story!
good job!
Reading this post made me actually miss the grind I was in trying to get an IB position... I dropped out of the banking race after securing an industry spot for a equally satisfying gig on the West Coast, but I have to admit that I still consider the life I would be living otherwise. Watching The Wolf of Wall Street didn't help, either...
Congratulations and good luck, but mostly thanks for sharing your story. Even though I went another route, stories like yours help all the non-targets working their asses off get a taste of the fruit, and motivate them to keep on truckin'.
That deserves a SB @zeroblued, you nailed it man, congrats!
This is awesome! Congratulations!
412 emails? You go, Glenn Coco!
@"zeroblued" You're the man, thanks a lot. I'll let you know results. Best of luck in the internship, I'm from New York if you ever want to meet up for a beer to celebrate DM me.
np, new yorker? even better, meet people in person. don't give an excuse for a phone call, let them turn you down and THEN suggest the phone call. Also start learning about other aspects of finance. If you want to do PE/HF/AM/consulting/Corp fin after. It took me a couple months of wso to figure out, but its well worth it.
Congrats to the OP and to @Marcus_Halberstram
Usually I don't read these type of posts but this is good stuff. Good to see that being an engineering major didn't hold you back, and agree in general about always aiming to have the things you can control 100% down pat, to compensate for all of the things you can't. Congrats.
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