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I think I have an answer to this question, but I just want to ask the WSO community as a 'sanity check', I have two offers in hand:

  1. 3 month Internship w/ NYC mezz debt fund - will not convert to FT opportunity
  2. F500 FP&A @ a divisional HQ - FT

My end goal is within 0-1 yrs enter an MSF program [Vandy, Duke, Villanova, etc.] and break into IB

Background: business undergrad at a non-target, triple-major w/ high GPA, military exp., PE internship Junior, CorpFin internship Sophomore, got interviews w/ MM IB's this season w/ lots of help from network, but didn't close any

As much as I shudder at the thought of it, I'm thinking to play my cards safe, I should take the FP&A role, crush-it and then move on applying in R1 to MSFs... Agree/Disagree.. thoughts?

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How did you not close anything especially with that experience?

I'm gonna get that bish some binary Bishes love binary --------- Kind Regards, Bin_Ban
 
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Binary_BanksterHow did you not close anything especially with that experience?

About 3/4 of my interviews [I had 9-10] were prefaced with were're committed to taking our SA's before non-core to when it got later [Oct/Nov] flat out: 'your resume has been passed to us from XYZ and it looks great, but were're done hiring'

I think I was perceived as a legitimate candidate w/ 3 banks, the rest it seemed like I was being interviewed b/c the interviewer was doing a favor for my reference. Of those 3 I made it to 1 superday and got dinged b/c I fucked up an easy paper/pencil model [incorrectly reconciling the sale of an asset/ w/ accum. depreciation] and the others I don't really know what happened.

I think you're correctly wondering if it's a 'ME' problem and I asked myself that too and some of my contacts and they agreed that it was not...

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Oh didn't realize it was for FT instead of SA

Sorry to hear man, such is life though, there are always a few bumps in the road

I'm gonna get that bish some binary Bishes love binary --------- Kind Regards, Bin_Ban
 

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