Summer Analyst/Associate Dings

My anecdotes:
- Two heavy-hitter MD's in an EB group left mid-summer, and downsized the FT class significantly
- Summer analyst started dating a FT analyst, dinged at the final roundtable for conflict of interest (and she sucked)
- Summer associate tried to fight a summer analyst
- Summer associate sent an external email talking...unfavorably... about the group head, flagged by HR
- Summer analyst failed a modeling exercise because he hard-coded the debt schedule... LOL

Do you guys have any similar stories to share (first-hand experience or through the rumormill)? It's like you only had to get through 10 weeks... come on.

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Serious question.How much alcohol are you supposed to handle to actually seem that you hold your liquor? How many shots and beers?

Eight is a solid number. Unless you work in Jefferies Healthcare which sings to the tune of 20.

Funny stories... Summer Analyst has a full on nervous breakdown trying to do a DCF model. Summer Associate gets in a screaming argument with full time associate in front of everyone. Summer Analyst uses a VPs seamless dollars without asking the ONE night the VP actually decides to stay eat at the office

 

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