Received my PWP rejection email!

""

Thank you very much for applying to the Corporate Advisory Internship Programme - July 2021 opportunity.

After review, unfortunately we will not be proceeding with your application at this time.

To summarize, I:

  • Wrote a fucking essay about what I would like to achieve as an intern at Perella Weinberg Partners
  • Wrote a fucking essay to explain what title I would give to the autobiography of my life
  • Wrote a fucking essay about the alternatives to M&A for a company
  • Wrote a fucking essay about a PWP deal while trying to sound genuinely thrilled
  • Wrote a fucking essay about which question I would like to ask Dietrich Becker if given the opportunity, as if I gave a fuck about that guy
""

We sincerely appreciate your time and interest in Perella Weinberg Partners and wish you the best for the future.

Yeah fuck you

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Im at a top target and apparently All of Oxbridge/LSE finance societies are considering banning PWP from their campuses after this years antics. 

 

The Dartmouth Partners PWP team once interviewed me on the train. I tried to reschedule, but the interviewer told me that my chance to interview was "now or never". So I had to do a full 15min behavioural interview on a packed rush hour overground train.

 

This type of shit pisses me off. When firms think that they're so special that they demand 3-5 hours from each applicant's time. 

It's always the mid-tier firms with a chip on their shoulder 

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