I might be autistic...

Clickbait title right? I have interviewed with every shop from the middle market to elite boutique and struck out on 20+ superdays and 50+ processes in general. I have been dinged by Tobin & Co. (not even joking - for an internship) and Evercore at a superday (2nd place finish per MD, not sure if that was a lie), but ended up somewhere closer to the latter. There was no identifiable pattern in offers clearly, until I received one yesterday...

Usually it's my GPA (3.3) at a semi-target, which doesn't have a great story other than I found IB late in the game, that dings me instantly. I have gotten 2 offers over the course of several years between FT and lateral recruiting. Why might you ask?

Both of the offers I got, I pulled an all-nighter prior to the superday and was severely sleep deprived leading up to them for one reason or another. I stopped caring about the interviews and just wanted to make it through to go pass out.

It surely can't be a coincidence, but I find myself much more vibrant as a person when sleep deprived and happy during interviews. You could be talking about your wife's funeral and I would have a big stupid smile on my face. If you're a Dale Carnegie fan, here's another datapoint to add to the list.


This tells me 1 thing; I might be autistic.


Thank you for listening to my TED talk.

 

I just get blasted before interviews - always helps to get the creative juices flowing

 

You’re really lucky to get offers in IB with that 3.3 GPA.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Tried to do an internship so I could use it to land a FT gig.

I was told "I didn't sound convincing enough as to why IB?" lmfao.

I didn't mind eating money because I worked during school anyways.

 

My first offer was a lot like that. I was so down in the dumps, but sleep deprivation made me so happy it's kind of unnerving when I look back at it.

 

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