Hello I just had a super day at a BB. I go to a non-target but have a large school team at the bank. My school was given 3 super days and I was wondering how the process usually works. Will the bank usually take all 3 students if they perform well? Just 1? Any info on this would be greatly appreciated.
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Your school doesn’t matter nearly as much as how you interact with your interviewers at a superday. All 3 could be taken, or 0 people could be taken. It depends on how many spots they have to fill and how you do compared to other interviewees.
This isn't fully true, if they are all placed in the same pod for the superday, then there is likely 1 spot available between them and at maximum two spots. If they are all placed in different pods though, your answer is correct and they all could get offers. Most BBs operate on the pod system, or at least they did when I had superdays two years ago.
What is this pod system?
Notice how I said that it’s also based on how many spots they have to fill...? I wasn’t incorrect, you just didn’t understand the full extent of my answer because you made an incorrect assumption.
@OP each superday will have a set of interviewees at certain time slots. You’re typically in groups of 3-6 people per time slot.
You’re benchmarked against the other people in your superday, and in your interview time slot.
Most often, in those groups of 3-6 people you’ll have around a 30-50% chance at getting an offer near the start of the process, and closer to a 5-15% chance near the end of the process as they have fewer offers to give out.
Best case scenario = your two friends are interviewing in different time slots and you’re not compared to each other. If it’s a 30% chance and you 3 are in separate interviews/time slots then you can all get an offer without being compared to each other. That, or your interviewers are so impressed by all 3 of you when you interview at the same time that they decide they want to give out offers to you 3 and screw over later interviewees.
Worst case scenario = you 3 are in a pod of 6 people, it’s near the end of the recruiting season, and they give out offers to 5-10% of people in the whole superday. Throughout the whole superday they’ll have 3-5 groups of people interviewing, all the way from like 9am - 4pm. It’s possible that in your whole superday where they interview 20ish people that nobody gets an offer, or they give out 1-2.
If that sounds convoluted, it really is. I’ve been in superdays where they really liked me and they wanted to give me an offer, but it turned out they weren’t giving ANY offers that day because they gave out all of their offers the previous day and those people accepted on the spot (confirmed by my interviewer + an alumni in the group). I’ve had other superdays where I got an offer along with 50% of the people I superdayed with because it was their first superday.
There’s really no hard and fast science to it. People break HR’s rules all the time. I would’ve gotten that one offer if the bank had been more organized. It’s important to just be the best interviewee that you can be that day, and then not worry about it.
If you interview well and you don’t get it then it’s likely that you just weren’t what they were looking for in terms of cultural fit. No need to stress out about the probability of an offer given the time of day or weather that day or something.
Yes I never said you were incorrect! I only said it wasn't complete. I made an assumption based on the information that was presented.
Your full answer here is a great explanation of the process for the op.
Sorry haha I’m a little too aggressive over forums. I think I need a hobby.
I was at a superday where they were recruiting for one spot and had 4-5 people at the superday. I was from a non-target and I got it. As the person above me said, at the superday the slate is wiped clean (unless of course a super senior banker strongly pushes you), so it really just depends on how your interview went.
Ok, the zoom session was from 12-4 and there were 2 intervewers assigned so Im guessing that there were around 16 candidates (2 every 30 minutes) in the pod. I wonder how may they are taking out of the 16?
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