How long is too long on deliverables?
Probably going to sound like an anxiety-filled intern post, and that's pretty much what it is but here we go anyways.
Could I get dinged (No FT offer) for not getting work over fast enough? When I say not fast enough, I don't mean missing deadlines, I mean simply taking awhile on things that shouldn't. For example, my associate or analyst asks to pull together an assignment that realistically would take them ~45 minutes. I take 2.5 hours because I am 1. Not nearly as efficient and 2. Spend serious time checking over and adjusting little formatting mistakes I notice.
I always am way ahead of any hard individual deadline on first drafts, but feel as some items slip behind soft deadlines. For ex: On Wednesday, I am asked to pull together something that we are trying to get an MD's eyes by Friday evening (Although it's not for a live deal so it's not a hard deadline). We don't end up flipping it till Sunday because my associate and I have gone back and forth through a series of comments since Thursday. All the comments push the work further (It's not like I am missing certain things told in prior rounds).
Is this common or do I have a justified reasoning to be concerned that I am slow?
Whatever assignment they give you, they expect you to be slow on it because you are an intern. Therefore, it's "meeting expectations" if the process of back and forth makes it a little bit slower, since their baseline expectation is that you're dumb. It's "exceeding expectations" if you were efficient enough to get it done on time.
Nothing to stress about as long as you show improvement throughout the summer.
2 things:
Bear also in mind that your speed will improve with the weeks.
Wanted to bump this
For e.g how long do you think company profiles or strip profiles should take especially if it is a private company so info is not readily available
Really depends as a full time it should take like 20 mins or so but as an intern an hour or so is probably fine. Also really depends how detailed the strip is and how many you have to do. Normally our strips for the most part were super simple just containing a business description, management team, fund raising if private/last valuation, geography breakdown if provided/any kpis that you can find assuming private and maybe a bit about the products/services offered
somebody isn’t getting a FT offer in my group because of it
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