Interviewer was extremely late to the call
I had a superday recently and one of the interviewers was extremely late to the call. We spoke for less than 10 minutes and didn’t really get to know one another. Unsurprisingly, I just got dinged.
I’m pissed right now. Can you imagine if it were the other way around? What do I even do in these scenarios? I know it’s not entirely the interviewer’s fault that I got dinged, but I can’t possibly imagine that his actions benefited me.
I asked to schedule a follow up call (as he suggested at the end of our 10 minute conversation), but he did not respond to my email.
Has this ever happened to anyone? What do you even do in these scenarios? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I would email the group head and let him know your interviewer was late and you would like a redo.
Can’t tell if this is a joke
but goes without saying—don’t do this
unless you want to become the laughingstock of the group
It was a joke boss hog
Don't do that. You may be talking to this bank again for FT recruiting in as little as 9 months from now. You have plenty to lose being the weirdo who "appealed" a rejection.
As the post from the PE Associate 1 said, you did not lose the job because of this guy. He just deferred to everyone else. So figure out why you didn't get it and improve. It's not an "internship or bust" process. A lot of people get into IB through the FT process after no internship, and there's even more entry points after that.
Sorry, but this doesn't hold water. I have never seen anyone land an FT within IB with no prior internship experience APART FROM ONE BANK (and they had professional experience in accounting).
You had a super day, likely had interviews with several people. The guy who was late didn’t ding you, it was everyone else who dinged you.
I used to do IB interviews at my old company and whenever someone only got to talk to a candidate for like 5-10 minutes they would recuse themselves from voting on that candidate. Basically it’s not enough time for their opinion to matter.
Move onto the next one, complaining will just make you look silly
Honestly, you don't really have any leverage in this situation. You could try to email HR or someone else, but it likely won't amount to a hill of beans, and as the associate above said, it could make you look silly/petty. It totally sucks and doesn't seem fair, but there's a degree of randomness and luck (good and bad) to things you just can't account for.
I've shared this story before in a different thread:
When I was in high school, I scheduled an alumni interview as part of the admissions process to an Ivy that was probably my top pick. I had a strong profile and was well aligned with the school, but obviously with Ivies, it's a total crapshoot. I expected the interview to be a differentiator.
I drove over an hour to meet the interviewer at her house, and she wasn't there. Like not just late, she never showed up. I waited awhile and then went home and sent her an email (I didn't even have a cell phone in those days). She responded a few days later, was out of the country or something, said she totally spaced on the interview. We reschedule to a day/time that works for her, I drive again to her home, and we have like a fifteen minute conversation where she is so distracted and clearly could not care less about the interview. I didn't get accepted to said Ivy and in my youthful angst I ascribed an outsized importance to the shitty interviewer.
I was pissed, but I had no recourse. I could complain to the school, and maybe they would no longer use her as an alumni interviewer, but that would not change my situation. It sucked, and maybe under different circumstances that interview would have moved the needle for me, but that's unknowable. There are too many variables. Your situation is similar--it may have played a part in getting dinged, but more than likely it was the sum of many other parts.
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