Do SA banks/ firms call references to evaluate your performance?

Do banks/ other financial firms actually call your references from previous internships and evaluate your performance like that? For summer analyst recruiting for next summer. Like what if I get a pretty bad recommendation from one of my references, nothing glaring but just they had a mediocre impression of me.

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