What’s the worst candidate you’ve seen get hired for an IB analyst role? For instance, have you ever seen someone with like a 2.5 gpa in kinesiology but had solid connections or something get hired
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Damn. How'd you do that? Did you network or what?
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I'm sure being an attractive female had nothing to do with it...
Hilarious how all it took was your big asking her pledge sis in HR to spoof the resume screen for you. Shitty how other likeable/hardworking/smart kids with 3.5 GPAs who networked hard get dinged. Wonder why that is.
"...Shitty how other likeable/hardworking/smart kids with 3.5 GPAs who network hard get dinged"
Sounds like a networking / likeability issue.
Maybe instead of living in the library you should have NETWORKED?
Get that out of here, no pity for you.
guys who cares, she works in Ops in some wealth management firm. its not like she took a BB IBD spot
all you need to do is do a search on linkedin for Julianna B arizona state university communications sociology to find her profile.
Let me be the first to tell you, you are not likeable.
How do you get a 2.9 at ASU in communications? Unless you are a complete idiot or went to 10 classes your entire 4 years.
You do realize how ignorant and sanctimonious it sounds to preach about the importance of an internship when you have shitty grades, when most people don’t get anywhere near that internship with credentials better than yours?
What you are saying is true- but the way you say it seems to lack self-awareness.
sorority? ASU? ... takes the bulge right out of bulge bracket
You're my HERO JB!
Respect. Haters gonna hate
Which summer was this?
Props JB. Get it how you get it!
Hey! Props to you for your success. How your experience with interview prep? How did your interview go?
There was this intern at Big 4 I heard about on another thread that quit early to go on a vacation with his friends for 2-3 weeks.
Got a return offer and they offered to pay for his MBA
2.8 gpa.... got a name internship my soph summer and it helped the next summer when my GPA went south
Entitled kid whose daddy was a partner at a major US-based professional services company and knew a bunch of partners at my firm.
Kid was a sloppy worker, overly familiar, dishonest, and lazy. The type of asshole who pushes the rules compulsively because, I can only presume, his whole life is a continuing list of exceptions to the rule. Ended up getting canned halfway through the summer. No problem though, now works at Daddy’s firm.
Some interesting comments on here. Some of the best interns/analysts I've had attended so-so universities, and had non-finance backgrounds (even spoke English as a second language). Not to say this is the case with everyone, but you would be surprised at how much a "good work ethic" and a "humble attitude" can make up for.
Agreed. The best interns and juniors I ever had were the children of janitors, not senators.
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Fooled you idiots EASY.
I had a little bit of anxiety before one of my superdays with a BB a little while ago. Before making my way over to the corporate office from the hotel, I took half a Xanax, thinking it would make me feel calmer, and I hadn't taken any for months, so my tolerance was very low. I used to have a prescription a long time ago, but I stopped needing them.
I woke up back in my dorm room, still in my suit, with no recollection of coming back from New York City, no memory of my interview, or even walking to my interview. I checked my phone, and it looks like I got a lot of contact information from other people interviewing, and it looks like I even got food in the city with somebody based on my story on Snapchat, but I have no idea who the person was.
So I kind of just chalked it up as a loss. But then a day later, I get notified that I got an offer.
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Worst I've seen are usually relationship / referral hires - daddy is a partner at a PE firm or a client, etc.
I know a guy without a bachelor degree that got a full-time job at an IB in New York. He is self-taught and worked his ass off to gain more knowledge while working. Kudos to him for getting the degree later on.
Fun fact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Ermotti</a">Sergio Ermotti, CEO of UBS, does not have any degree. In fact, he does not even seem to have a high-school diploma - if the Wiki is correct about him leaving school at age 15.
Guy simply worked himself up, starting with an apprenticeship, which then turned into trading.
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