Good signs after IB interview

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One of my super day interviewers was a VP that worked directly under an MD I had networked with extensively.

The interview was supposed to be 30 minutes, but he said he had to take another call right when it started. He eventually joined back with 5 minutes left, so it wasn't much of an interview.

At the end when I was thanking him for his time, he apologized for leaving and mentioned that he had heard really good things about me from X MD and "to not sweat the rest of your interviews, you'll be more than fine. I already heard everything I need to know from X."

...don't know if it gets more crystal clear than that (this was for SA 2021)

I feel like during the interview you'll get obvious cues with body language, note taking, or even them actually saying that you are a good fit etc

Many thanks for the insight folks

I think during the interview, the biggest tells are body language (seem engaged/interested in my answer), or one-off comments they would make about my answers. I.e., if they are nodding while I was speaking, or if these said "Perfect, spot-on, etc... or "yes, I share similar thoughts" if it is more of an opinion question. If they ask you about where you are on other processes/ if you have any other supdays coming up, I think that is also a positive sign. After the interview, if your interviewers take the time to reply to your thank you emails (you should definitely write thank you emails), I've never had an instance where someone replied, and I didn't get an offer/move on to the next round.

Dude you just wait until you receive the yes or no. Stoping wondering if there were any clues like cmon man have some patience.

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Once I sent a thank you email and the guy responded with "We'll be in touch soon..." which I thought was incredibly ominous. I ended up getting the superday so completely misread that sign lol.

In general, getting responses to thank you emails have been good indicators for me

I took a piss and ran into one of my interviewers in the restroom. He told me I did a great job.

Spoiler: got the offer.

Got the offer 2 hours after the last interview. Feelsgoodman

Obviously not the best sample size, but I've found that the higher the response rate on my thank you emails, the better chance I have of landing the job. Bankers are busy and I think a lot of people just sort of ignore a thank you email regardless of performance, but often times when I've gotten an offer the MD will respond something like 'really enjoyed meeting you' or something along those lines, whereas they will definitely not take the time to respond if you definitely didn't get the job.

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back then I hit it off with an analyst and associate during a superday, after i finished all the interviews i got linkedin requested shortly after by them and got the offer the next day lol

I would echo the sentiment that you can't tell. It's just all too speculative and will just mess up with your mental fortitude (e.g if you think you didn't pick up any positive cues in the first 2 rounds of your superday, you sweat and mess up the remaining ones). For the firm where I did get my SA offer (top BB/EB), I got no signs and genuinely thought I didn't make a good connection. Some interviewers are just naturally more serious/less chill in interviews, they do this to everyone and if they don't open up to you by the end of the interview, it does not mean you messed it up. For what is worth, the superday where I thought I did phenomenally (where the MDs were praising me nonstop and acted really impressed), were the firms where I found out they decided there was no cultural fit.

is it a bad sign if my interviewer didn’t reply to my thank you email? She did mention that she was super busy in the beginning of the interview (but I think all bankers are busy)

Usually a pretty good sign is if they drop to their knees and start unzipping your pants as they stick their business card into your lucky thong

I had a Director personally walked me to the elevator, chatted for a few minutes, missed a couple of lifts, and replied to my thank you letter. Didn't get the offer.

Was asked at the end of the superday if I would accept an offer if they gave me one (and also how long I would take before potentially accepting it). Was also asked if I had any reservations/questions about an offer. 

Ended up getting the offer within 2 hours of the superday, so I would say that was a really good sign.

When your father gives you the thumbs up sign as he’s walking past the interview room from his corner office

In my experience, if they ask you if you are in the process with other firms or if they say good job at the end it's usually a good sign.

Head of the group said “think you’ll be a great fit” at end of interview, heard back day later