Unheard of Situation: IB Firm Ghosting Me on Covering Travel Interview Expenses
Current IB Analyst in BB, wanted to lateral to a different city and was deep in the process. Made it to superday. I have literal e-mail proof of a managing director + HR claiming to book everything (flight, hotel, ubers) on my card, and then after the superday reach out to the bank and they will reimburse me. I have it in writing in e-mail. I spent around $900 all in and they are REFUSING to respond to me.
I don't care if I don't even get the offer at this point, I just want to be reimbursed like they said they would. Tried reaching out to my recruiter, HR, the director I worked closely with in the process, all ghosted.
Very shady, I’m not sure what you can do
in this case…. do you know others interviewing? It could be worth it to reach out to them or try to touch base with ex-bankers from the firm to maybe see if they have any insight
It could also be they are waiting on your decision and will comp everything when process is finished for you and others interviewing
Haha crazy this happened to me too but for analyst recruiting
HL LA ghosted me for 6 months over my superday travel expenses. I harassed HR by calling her every single day for 3 months before she picked up, apologized, and finally paid up. Was not the only person this happened to.
It has been years but the same thing happened to me. HL LA. I never got my money back and gave up. Shameful. It’s one thing if you’re a 10-man boutique. Completely another if you’re a publicly traded company.
Had a similar situation, and I too harassed the staff and borderline half the company to pay me back. After several weeks, it became funny to me that they weren't paying me and became an inside joke with my buddies how long this would go for. I almost wanted them to not pay me. I would call three times a day, call their superiors, people that reported straight to them, head of the division and CEO were up next. I would find random people on LinkedIn and craft an email according to their name, while CC'ing the HR lady and coverage team's business manager who were the ones that were suppose to pay me.
Imagine being an MD and the head of Real Estate and Lodging Group, and an analyst in the ECM team, getting an email seeing if they could point me in the right direction, while in the CC's are the two women that were suppose to pay me. I included in the body of the paragraph the previous 18 emails I had sent, and would pair it with random phone calls to her and people that worked with her.
I started becoming passive aggressive: "hi Linda, per my 18 previous emails included below in the body of the email, and the 24 voicemails I have left you, I just wanted to touch base again and see if we had squared away the $1100 reimbursement for my travel accommodations."
100% enjoyed reading this but out of interest, was there not a risk they could leak/expose to your current employer that you were interviewing?
Hope you got your bread back
this was coming out of college, even worse for them was me emailing them from an .edu email, putting them more to shame.
EVR ghosted me for 8 months and then one day out of the blue someone from the HR team reached out with reimbursement forms and requesting my account info.
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