Dumbest guy alive? haha
I don't know about you, but this was probably the funniest thing I have ever personally witnessed.
A few days ago I had an interview with a bank. This interview was done on campus and there were to students interviewed at the same time.
Now the next to me was probably one of the top students in my year and by the way the interviewers were looking at him, it looked like I stood absolutely no chance.
So we go through the interview no problem, this guy was fairly quiet and i felt as if i was dazzling the interviewers. At the end of the session, they ask us if we have any question we would like to ask them, so obviously I go first and ask my question.
This is the funny part, Mr. Genius next to me, takes a quick glance at me, back at the interviewers and asks, "I'm sorry to ask this, but what exactly is Investment banking? "
I tried with all my might but couldn't keep it in, I burst out laughing and couldn't stop. Now this guy must have felt like a complete *hole.
After we left, one of the male interviewers comes up to me, and we started to share a couple of laughs. I honestly feel better about my chances now :)
Have a similar story. Although it wasn't as important as an interview..I did stand next to a guy at a career fair once and he was supposedly one of the smarter people in my year...This guy goes up to Prudential (yeah the insurance company) and goes...."are you guys an investment bank? What kind of IB services do you offer?"
Hahaha, this stuff really makes me jizz myself :)
Somewhat similar story. Had a hedge fund manager give an informal speech one night. One of his major topics was how the US had too much debt as a whole (on various levels - gov/individuals etc.) and this caused him a little bit of discomfort regarding investing in the US in general. So in the Q&A some girl asked: "Sooo do you recommend putting money in a savings account?" - luckily for her he was a nice guy.
I do manage money at a hedge fund and I dont see what's funny about this question. The answer could be yes or no depending on the guy's opinion but a savings account has pros and cons just like any other investment. As another poster said above, a savings account (even at near 0 interest rates) outperformed many hedge funds over the last few years.
And BTW I'll take somebody who knows nothing about the business but is hard working and humble over some snickering kid who already he thinks he knows everything any day of the week.
I'm assuming your fund just puts its money into a big savings account?
Sounds kind of dumb to me. I know plenty of Yale comparative lit majors who are now at KKR/BX/Apollo after their banking stints and they probably would have asked the same questions.
I also remember sitting in those very same information sessions and recall the know-it-all tools who would sneer and snicker whenever someone asked a question... as the lesser candidates didn't spend their college days obsessing over working at GS/MS/JPM/ML/Citi and memorizing verbatim their business principals , how many people they employ, how many countries they do business in, where they fall in the league tables and how many billion terabytes of space they use to keep their global business running.
+1
Hey at least he's not a douche from South Africa...
Be funnier if you both get rejected.
Haha, yeah, HR is going to 'ding' you for being insensitive and you both will be unemployed, lol.
Interviewing is more art than science. Some people take a liking to you and some won't. I had a phone interview before where the guy was all over my nuts about how I was in the military and how I worked and interned and went to school (like real hours, not a 2 hour shift at the library or something) so after a couple minutes on the phone he set me up for a Superday. I went to the Superday and just felt like the guys I interviewed with there didn't like the fact that I worked in school and didn't like the fact that I was in the military. A couple point out my age might be a problem. I answered all the same questions on the Superday that I did on the phone, so sometimes it goes your way, sometimes it doesn't. At any rate, maybe the OP lucks out because he created a bond with the IB guy who came up and joked around with you. Or maybe people think that guy is a jerk off because he is always bull shitting when he should be bustin his ass, so when he tells his boss about this great guy he met at the OCR, his boss will just assume the kid is a jackass too and not even bring him in for an interview. You just never know.
Regards
" This interview was done on campus and there were to students interviewed at the same time."
He probably knows how to spell two.
Ha! pwned.
Yeah only complete ra-tards don't know what investment banking is....
i got a better one on the do you have questions the interviewer asked me i asked him to add the sum of prime numbers 1-100 he had no clue
their is a french saysing for : "rira bien qui rira dernier" from Jean de Lafontaine
basically, you might be the first one to laugh but the last one to laugh is the one who win.
OP, dont get me wrong...i love laughing at the expense of others (especially my friends) but laughing out loud at some random clown in a formal interview setting is obnoxious and at least one of the interviewers probably dinged you for being an inconsiderate dbag.
Lever up, the girl that suggested putting money in a savings account probably outperformed the HF manager YTD so she got the last laugh but girls are retarded so what do you expect
Balbasur, are you serious? that is the funniest thing ever...not You should spend less time on irrelevant math facts and more time on getting laid.
then i asked him give a formula to generate Pythagorean triples
OP, you should have shut your mouth and when all was said and done gone up to the genius kid and tried consoling him. They guy might actually appreciate your kindness and in 3 years when he is utterly dominating you he might help you out.
They guy was a moron for asking that question during an interview, but he might of been a little confused. Really was immature and unprofessional to laugh like that in an interview setting.
Please everyone call me a pussy, but banking is not 100% a ruthless, primal slaughter house. People will stab you in the back and shit like that, but being an outright dick to everyone is a sure fire way to never make any friends or connections.
I have numerous friends in all areas of finance and I was genuinely happy when they got their jobs and would help them whenever they need. Emotional intelligence is sorely lacking in so many of these threads. Try growing a little personally and showing some empathy to people around you. You will be surprised at the long term benefits.
And please, being a dick and laughing at people doesn't make you bad ass. It just makes you a dick who gets away with it because your laughing at other pussies. One day you will try that shit and get your teeth knocked out.
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Being a dick gets you no where. Laughing only hurt you in the interview. The kid dug his own grave by asking a dumb question.
Lol thanks Balbasur
you are nicer on the quantnet forums :)
Yeah, the topics tend to be a little more civil there.
I see I have a following lol.
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