When to give up on getting a job offer following final interview.....

I had final interviews with 3x MD's last week on Wednesday and I still haven't had an offer, but I haven't heard that I have been rejected either. HR said this last Wednesday (one week later) that the team was discussing 'shortly'.

Am I being flipped or is there a genuine chance that an offer might be incoming? Does anyone have any experience with this?

The role is in institutional sales for a BB firm and it's an 'off-cycle' Associate hire (few applicants, not a formal programme).

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Have you emailed them asking for a timeline or an update or anything or are you just playing the waiting game?

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You still have a chance. For experienced hires, the process can be quite long and drawn out (as you may know) and they won't be trying to turn around with an answer in a day or two as they do with formal recruiting processes. They may just be really busy. May even be likely you're on a waitlist in which case hopefully others say no, but in this type of scenario I think no news is not bad news.

 

Thanks for your comments guys.

Skinnayyy- I spoke to an HR person on Weds and they said that they would have news for me 'within' the next couple of days. So I assume I need to hear something today.

notthehospitalER- I have been leaning towards what you are saying because of the difficulty of getting various VP's, MD's etc into the same room to discuss a new hire, but I think I needed someone else to support that view!

It is torture waiting. Hate it.

 

Ok yeah when reading I wasn't sure what wednesday you were talking about for each one that you said so I got a little confused. I wasn't sure if you talked to HR last wednesday or this Wednesday. I wouldn't even imagine you getting a response back today, just because it's a Friday. Probably next Tuesday you'll get a response.

We need to start WSO offer pools for things like that this so we can all bid on what days we think people will get call backs!

make it hard to spot the general by working like a soldier
 

If you don't hear anything back today, I'd give them a call tomorrow morning. A week to do something that they said would only take a couple of days warrants a call. Or an email at the least.

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