SPRING WEEK DISASTER
This spring week thing seems impossible I've applied to every single firm every single investment bank under the sun of the earth. I go to a top tier target and study finance. I am still waiting back from like eight firms. It seems like without a spring week I won't get a summer analyst role and I'm so disheartened at this point. I got rejected for an accounting firm, and that was the tipping point. I still have faith, but this shit is so depressing. Haven't even heard back from the firms I'm keen on, and my upper-class men are saying that emailing HR is unprofessional. Only got one first round at a bb/eb so far.
Bump
I’m contemplating just lying that I’m gay but.........
Just say you are “bisexual”…
Bonus points for “mixed race”, “first generation to go to university” or “(learning) disability”
wouldn't learning disability make them think you aren't cut out for banking?
basically implies you are either lowIQ or an insufferable forrest gump clone
You don't need a spring to get a SA, work on your technicals & behaviourals and find some nice little internship in PWM for next summer
Don’t need spring week to land top BB for SA
I dont see how emailing HR is unprofessional. What is your concern about that?
Because wtf is HR going to do? they’re in charge of spamming employees and taking 2 hour lunch breaks, not candidate selection
You should not get discouraged over spring weeks, you are very privileged to even know about them and be able to apply. During my BSc I was in a non-target, completely clueless about what IB was, now I'm interning at GS/MS/JPM because when I learnt about IB I never stopped trying to break in and gave it my best shot. Understand it's a numbers game and give it your best shot, you have way more chances to break in than many other candidates ever had
My comment below was in response to this.
+1
How did you end up breaking in?
I discovered IB at the end of my second year of very non-target BSc, well past when I could apply to SA (they wouldn't have selected me either way because of non-target and zero work experience). Did the best to prepare GMAT and get a decent internship in audit for third year. Got into a target master, applied to SA and OC, didn't get SA but got OC and now I'm doing it.
Where did you learn the Technicals?
how is this possible? i have many senior manager friends at a Big4 and this just does not compute..unless you are literally "the worst".
Something is very wrong with you....and until you figure out what that is...no bueno
every person i know at a Big4 firm (and i know a lot) wanted to get into IB, but could not. The Big4 accounting firms are where people who couldn't get into IB go.
It was for big 4 consulting it was because of the test and the rest of the big 4 only offer diversity insight weeks so I was only eligible for one.
What's a common trope among these folks who got rejected and went to big4 lol
this^ - but also what you say @OP in your post whilst a bit extreme (some would argue that is not too far to hate speech) is very true and I share your views (although I express them more moderately) - read this and you'll see that there is definitely a path to IB despite not having done spring weeks https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/20-most-frequently-asked-questio…
Yeah I agree I was a bit harsh in the original version of the post lol hopefully I’ll land something and if I don’t it’s not the end of the world.
Spring weeks are a total crapshoot, getting no offers doesn't at all reflect negatively on your profile.
Unfortunately they are not exclusive to 1st year undergrads, plenty of twenty-something MSc students from Europe also apply to them and get offers. Makes the competition quite impossible for the 19 yr olds applying.
Same here, had a decent profile imo and landed not even first rounds. I’m really wondering if my cv was even read by someone...
Uh, can someone tell me what a spring week is?
https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/20-most-frequently-asked-questio…
Want to hear a funny story.
My friend got rejected from every bank, including GS. He decided to yolo it and reapply to GS using a different email and instead under the ethnicity/race question within ‘disclosures’ to say he was black (instead of white, which he is).
As a result of his second submission as a ‘black’ candidate, he got the interview and converted it to an offer. All his interviewers were black (GS probably arranged black interviewers for a proposed black candidate) and he was a white guy awkwardly sat there, but they liked him and gave him an offer. His email must have also been automatically put into the black / diversity database as when he joined he used to regularly get invited to black networking events within the organisation.
Please do not try this haha, it most likely will not work and could lead to you getting blacklisted for trying to take advantage of minority hiring boom. My friend got lucky that his interviewers probably didn’t know he was meant to be ‘black’ and also didn’t raise him not being black to HR or something so got away with it.
How would someone that claimed to be black and obviously lied get an offer?? Wouldn‘t they rather blocklist him?
Agreed, that’s why I said how lucky he got because the interviewer and HR probably never spoke about his ethnicity i.e. the interviewer probably didn’t know he was meant to be black and then HR never found out he wasn’t black.
Isn't that the goal??
Your friend is going places
Is there anything similar in for US offices?
I used to have similar thoughts but now that I have gone through the process I can tell you that I know LOTS of people with summer offers without doing springs.
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