How perfect does one have to be at interviews?
I am not from a finance academic background – but I still think my technicals are remarkably good in spite of that. It does seem in recent assessment centres that I get brutally punished for like scoring only 7/10 or 8/10 instead of 10/10 when I get unlucky to have forgotten my last remaining weak point in internship-level IB technicals. I had thought not being 100% perfect was slightly pardonable for someone whose only education is totally unrelated to econs/maths/accounting/finance/business/management. Again, I'm not making excuses or anything – I don't think I have any weak point anymore– having dealt with the last remaining one right after my failure in the last AC; but I'm frightened that with my extremely low rate of getting any interviews whatsoever, due to being non-target, I might never even get a 2nd AC in this season (unlike target candidates that usually get more than half a dozen interviews & can afford to get away with just only one subpar AC performance) to make up for my mistakes at the first bank (just like I got literally only one interview last season)
The hard truth - there's not really any "unluckiness" involved if you are very consistently getting multiple things wrong. You simply need to study more.
Technicals are a check the box type of thing... you don't need to be a savant, but IB technicals are fairly basic math and 70-80% right is pretty consistently missing a few. At a non-target you don't have the luxury of tons of interviews, so you can't let ACs be the reason you get rejected
Thanks – I guess there's no point crying over spilled milk now, considering I'll get 100% if at all another interview opportunity ever comes (now that the failure won't ever let me forget the answer that could have made all the difference). Life is naturally full of its down-s
Good luck man. Happy to read this
i would just scour the internet for all the questions you can possibly find to practice with... on a previous thread someone recommended liquidityshark and overlevered. best of luck, you've got this!
What kind of technicals come up most often
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