Horrible mid-summer review
I just had my midsummer review today, and the negative feedback was a lot to take in. Of course there are positives, but looks like the return is a long shot.
Thoughts on keeping it up? Should I still go full force for the tiniest ray of hope, or look elsewhere now?
For more context, at an EB, I had excellent reviews on work and quality of deliverables, and the feedback was about soft skills (like taking time to gather opinions on my work even when they’re excellent, and saying Idk when I don’t actually know something)
How do you get a bad mid review for an excellent work product? Unless you literally never say I don't know to anything and it's completely obvious then don't see how that overrides everything and puts you in no return category
Tbh it was more of an attitude problem than a performance one. I guess even if you’re producing the best quality of work out there but don’t fit in with the culture, then you’re not it
You're not giving us much info to go off of but if it's an attitude problem it could potentially be because you are a hardo / insufferable. If I heard an intern say something like "even if you're producing the best quality of work out there, sometimes it's not enough :( " I would start calling you slurs within the confines of my mind.
Yes, keep working hard. You are getting paid more than you are worth to learn and grow. Take the feedback seriously but don’t let it deter you from sustaining what you’ve done well. Speak to a junior or senior mentor at the firm…if you don’t have one, get one. Notice how others interact. Have more coffee chats with people at the firm…ask them about what challenged them when they got in the seat and find out how they filled the gaps. Put yourself out there…you have nothing to lose at this point. Good luck.
Great advice, thanks. I talked to my mentor on my team, he said it’s fine and it’s a learning opportunity. I have no problem viewing the feedback as such, but I don’t want to put all my effort into a nonexistent return offer
The hard work isn’t for the firm, fuck the firm. It’s for you, and what you will get out of it. When you get back to campus do you want to just talk shit about your experience or do you want to have pushed your boundaries a bit and learned more about yourself? It’s all about perspective. Be positive and work hard.
RO still on the table if u improve well to your feedbacks so dw. If u go full on recruiting mode now you are opening urself up to get fcked
Hope so, I’m still on the fence. Both ways seems uncertain as hell
To me the review you got appears flawless… if the worst things they have to say to you are “ask for more feedback on your excellent work” and “say when you don’t know something”, you must be incredible at your job. I’ve gotten absolutely torn apart in every single review by my bosses, even in years I got the highest possible bonus. There’s always things I’ve had to improve to develop even further and get to the next level. I mean no matter how good you are there is always a next level unless you’re the #1 guy in your field.
Perhaps you’re being too sensitive. IB is a tough job and if your seniors who’ve been doing this 10+ years have 0 improvement areas for you other than soft skills, you could possibly by the greatest junior to ever do IB.
I hope so…what would be the worst for you?
If that was the worst thing said about you, that's the greatest review I have ever heard about it at an EB, especially for an intern. I think you should have asked the standard How am I tracking for the return btw if you were so worried, but that feedback seems phenomenal. I am the summer staffer in an EB(ignore title am not an AN1) and trust me when I say this: most reviews have actual negative feedback that is directly related to work (the IDK thing is real, but fairly minor and can honestly be viewed as a positive by some, the gather opinion one is something everyone is supposed to do but vast majority of people don't).
Woah that’s reassuring to hear. The excellent part was like 2 minutes and the rest of the review were all negatives so I’m not sure. Making up my mind rn and probably will push it till the very end
I find it really hard to beleive that those are the worst things said about you if they talked negatives about you for the rest of the time (unless the meeting was 5 minutes or something). Either you are misrepresenting or your feedback was super positive. Honestly, I would just ask my staffers where you stand for returns. We generally know if we want to give a return back (we aren't sure of headcount obviously, but we know our answer for the binary yes or no for the group), the vast majority of summer staffers if not all of them will share this info with you. It's the expectation to do at most firms.
Hey man, the review is supposed to be about your points to improve, not about your strengths. They always mention both, but the actual conversation must be about the weaknesses and you should ask a lot of questions to understand how to improve.
You should be happy you got actionable feedback and should be more worried if you got a “you are doing well” honestly.
I assure you that other interns got horrible reviews, and soft skills is what most interns lack anyways.
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Want to comment on this bc I went thru similar situation last summer. Couple of mins of good words and the rest was me getting ripped apart(it’s rly rlly fucking bad I legit cried during the meeting). I was having both work product and attitude problems despite me thinking putting in lots of time and effort(I wasn’t perceived that way apparently lmao). The following weekend was rough- I was laying on my bed eating like a pos feeling anxious the whole time. So, I do feel you there. However that was not the end of the world. I took the review very seriously and tried to work on each and every aspect pointed out in my review - it really helps when you are constantly checking in with people you work closely with. You need to show signs of constant huge improvements. I was able to turn it around at the end of summer and bag the return when the return offer situation was horrible at the firm and group. You can do it man if you made it this far. Best of luck.
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