got a rejection email last night. don't understand why they won't even grant a phone interview even though all my stats and internship experiences are more than enough for the job... HR bureaucracy...

at least they had the courtesy to send notify

 

don't get nervous. just think that everything's fine and continue with your day. if nothing happens, go on to your next task. we are all young and full of potential and have lots of other worthy things to do than worrying about an email.

one of my alums recently told me to look ahead of things. don't be obsessed with the present too much. there's tons of opportunities in the future waiting for us. As for him, when he was applying for a job on wall street, he got rejected at all BB firms (not even phone interviews). In the end he had to settle with a small PWM position in philly. He's now the MD for emerging markets fixed income trading at the best BB. Keep it up, cool cats!

 

I'm from a non-target, and I got an email last week Monday to set up a first round phone interview, emailed them back with my available times, and still haven't heard back regarding a confimed interview time?!?

Has this happened to anybody else?

 
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Let them know you've applied- if the system gives you some sort of reference number or something like that, casually mention it in a brief sentence after you said you've applied. ("Not sure if this helps, but the system gave me ref # 230503 after I applied.")

Then sit back and relax. A conversation with someone from the hiring team only merits you treatment that's as fair as everyone else.

It's a little early to be mentioning this, but Barclays is known for being an analytically driven firm. It runs on the british system and hiring managers have less discretion than they do at, say, Lazard or Goldman Sachs. It's also known for having HR be somewhat disorganized and slow. It may take several weeks for them to get back to you after an interview. You need to know this in advance, so that when you come back in March with some post like "Two weeks since I interviewed with Barclays... ding?", we can calm you down and you can trust us a little better.

 

Thanks for the advice. I just read in the FAQs that they have a program that recognizes multiple applications. If I apply again from another account (since my main one is used to apply to a non-NYC office) - I won't be rejected from application system will I?

"Try and fail, but don't fail to try"
 
Jules Winnfield:

Can anyone confirm if they're still interviewing?

Hi Jules, saw you posting on multiple of these so I thought I might help! In my knowledge, Barclays has 4 superdays (only speaking about IBD and S&T since that is all I know about). Unfortunately, the last one ended around the middle of February :/ The superdays were Jan 16th, Jan 30th, Feb 6th, and I think Feb 13th or 14th
 

From reading your description above this is certainly not a finance role. It also sounds like it's one level removed from traditional risk, in that it is "information" risk dealing with only information assets. Sounds like MO role but likely IT related. I don't see it as a stepping stone to the buyside per your interests

Re if barclays name is worth accepting a BO or MO role, do a search as this has been disussed a lot esp in regards to gs,ms,pe megafund role in bo or mo. IMO any bo role with a brand name company is never worth it. You will never ever interact with fo as they have zero incentive to network with you. But u can read peoples opinions and make up ur own mind

 

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I am a freshman. would it be worth it work at a smaller company and more interesting stuff or take barclays? I am really conflicted what internship should I ask for

Sounds to me like Accounting. Not really IT. Management accounting, not financial.

1: "information assets" seems to describe things that are feeding decision makers, ie accounting info.

2: "risk management principles" strikes me right away as something to do with support functions (ie assurance and checking operations are running ok, and without undue risk regarding Operations Risk, Write-Down risk, Competitive Risk aka Robert Simons' management accounting textbook stuff)

3: "operating model and risk appetite" looks particularly misleading. Operating model likely has very little to do with 'models' in finance, and 'risk appetite' seems to have nothing to do with Markowitz and related risk modeling methods. It seems to just be there to attract freshmen that don't know any better and appetite is always in a finance undergrad topics, not in accounting to confuse people imho.

4: "Business Unit information risk" ... information/management accounting "and security teams," ...definitely assurance therefore accounting, "Legal & Compliance, Risk" ... Compliance ==very probably accounting.

If you can choose something more finance related at little to no cost, I'd do it. If you weigh position+name with your other offers and find this isn't what you want, choose the other one. One internship is better than none, most of the time.

 

This internship will not help u to eventually work in finance. Yes u are better off doing a finance related job at a smaller shop. The conten of ur job function is more important than the barcap brand name

 

I interned primarily in ops for a top tier BB. It was incredibly boring. The interview was pretty basic and just asked about my resume, why I wanted to go into finance, and what my future aspirations were. I would suggest staying away from ops if you have any interest in going into a front office position (S&T, IBD, ER, etc).

 

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