State of recruiting in the UK
Currently am an analyst at a BB and my brother is a warwick/LSE and have been hearing tons of stories on how more and more kids are trying to get an edge through applying as diversity or getting access to questions before interviews. Is this what it takes nowadays???
This is what happens when the finance soc leadership has found success doing it and thus recommend also the first years to do it. Apply as diversity they say! Guess what, they also subscribe to question banks and share it across. I hate this game and am at Warwick...
dang i need to tell my brother to get on some of this stuff, what do they use? like do ya'll just share questions internally, is there a bristol tracker equivalent of sharing questions?
Yes we share internally because some people take interviews earlier right and can share but also that sometimes gets rough when one person gets the offer and others might not so a bit of an incentive problem. Our club also tells people to subscribe to online question banks that keep a record of all the past quesitons and is supposedly used pretty commonly across schools
am at LSE and can confirm this is unfortunately exactly how it is. especially because questions do not change even when interviewing with a real question lol
I'm at LSE and my friends are so stingy... are your friends sharing questions? or is it a club? yea i know hte banks are lazy asf
not friends with anyone in banking minded things hahahah i just try to have a good time in life man
Love this. Funnily enough, its people like you who always do better and actually convert summers vs. the tryhard virgin sweats who only think about finance (usually grammar school background, extremely insecure, socially autistic, complete lack of charisma and oratory skills on the whole). See so many autistic virgin LSE types who try so hard and never convert, continously reapplying (they always leave their dates off their education section on linkedin, its very obvious and hilarious).
From my experience at a US BB.
not really worked for me in fairness as i haven't got a summer but still recruiting and will do a masters so should be fine
mindset for me is that i put the hard work in and will get something that i deserve in the near future
LSE sent a couple of absolute freaks to JPM this summer
Two coming to mind from word of mouth – there was the incredibly autistic chinese girl with no social skills whatsoever (obviously failed to convert). The guy with his own fund seemed decent though,
Another guy (28th floor lets leave identifying info at that)
I have never seen anything like that before....
The Ted Bundy guy?
Yep. Heard he received a return offer
Nah, wasn’t in the return offer email
Good riddance…
Oh really? Looks like he has put it on his linkedin. We talking about the Parkview guy right?
Different people
unfortunately think the weirdo got it
Can confirm he did not get it. His team was very clear he is not going to.
But you guys are being harsh. He is super smart, just doesn't have the social skills.
he has it on his linkedin though as a return
oh brother we are talking about different people
Older interns don't convert?
del
some eb firms do take home case studies.
Wait till you find out how people cheat / ask for help on them.
THAT IS ABSURD A TAKE HOME??? i get it for PE firms but wow for as standardised as a process banking is this is IMO stupid how does this help you screen candidates better lol
Idea is that you have a week to do a case study, you get to see how the candidate thinks about deals strategically, show technical chops in practice (not just regurgitating 400Qs) and also they get to present it so you see the soft skills.
This is pretty late stage usually so I not really for screening
Ngl people were doing this stuff when I was recruiting 4+ years ago.
Whatever it takes enit. Unfortunately the issue is it has become significantly more widespread.
And wait till you hear about what the Asians are doing lmao
spill bro wtf
they pay a firm 50k to help them recruit and share questions among like call it its gotta be more than 300+ kids each year? great business for them
Wrong place looking for advice and answers here, everything’s on the Chinese apps
bro what is the shit with these chinese apps, what about literally everyone that doesn't speak chinese?
yea dont know either but have been hearing more and more about this on the street
can you spill more on this? please!
"spill"
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