Just Busy or Already Dinged???

I had a final round interview for a corporate banking group on Friday. I sent transcripts in on Friday around 4:30 and the main interviewer responded in 10 minutes with a simple thank you. Today, I sent a follow up email to three people, including this main interviewer, and none responded back. Am I already dinged, or are they still deciding? There was 8 of us at the superday.

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Relax. HR concerns aren't always at the top of everyone's priority list and sometimes it takes a few days.

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Just as a FYI interviewers typically do not respond to thank you emails and only follow up if you have a specific questions. Outside of IBD, the response time is a lot slower, especially when HR is involved with the interview process (instead of just handling the logistics). I would expect a ~2week response time from these guys. I recently interviewed for a commercial banking program from a top bank and was told it would take 2-3 weeks.

With that said, I would really get your hopes up because more likely than not they are only looking to hire 1-2 people and at that level there will be plenty of people who are all very qualified/can do the work and it will come down to something really subtle. On a given day any one of you can change from #1 to #5 etc.

 

Would the recruiter know? He replied back when I emailed him yesterday too, and said a decision will likely be made next week. At a BB, even if the group notifies of an offer, wouldn't HR be notified too? I just wasn't sure if a recruiter is the HR person that would be notified.

I am not trying to be an ass, but he just emailed me out of the blue and was wondering.

 

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