***Official Interview Success Stories Thread***

I figured I’d make a counterpart to the Interview Failures thread. Let’s share success stories of interviews that we really crushed. I’ll start off with a couple.

I was a small time broker a decent firm in NYC, but I wanted to be in the big leagues. I knew exactly which bank I wanted to work for b/c I really admired the head of that bank. I cold called his secretary dozens of times, but she never let me through. Finally, I just showed up at his office on his birthday and blew past his secretary. As I walked into his office I thought to myself “Life all comes down to a few moments – this is one of them” to pump myself up. I gave him a birthday gift (I don’t want to say exactly what it was, just in case he is reading this), and he immediately demanded to know why he was talking to me. I got DRILLED on technicals - pitched stock after stock, but he shat ALL OVER my picks. He didn’t care about the comps or DCFs I learned in school, and he didn’t care that I was certified through Wall Street Prep. I got desperate so I pitched him my father’s airline b/c there was a favorable lawsuit ruling the public was unaware of. Well, the guy was impressed, so he gave me a few case studies to complete...at first I struggled but I eventually came through, so he took me under his wing. It was an ad-hoc position, and my tenure was a bit turbulent, but I ended up learning a lot about securities law. Prospective monkeys- you need to be aggressive.

Later in my career, I was competing for an unpaid internship/training program at a major brokerage in NYC. At the time, I was a door-to-door salesman making peanuts, barely able to support my family. I was having trouble getting my foot in the door, but got a bit lucky one day when I was able to share a ride with a hiring manager! He was playing with a rubix cube and let me have a go…I solved that biatch and really impressed the mofo, landed an interview. Boom, baby.

Well, right before the interview, I was thrown in jail for a minor offense…damn popo was all up in my shizz. Haters. I got released just in time, SPRINTED the whole way there, covered in gooke, dirty pants, and only a t shirt on my upper body. I just kept it real and shot the interviewers straight. I told them I lacked experience but had what it takes to be a baller…you gotta be confident, kids. They asked me what I would say if they hired someone who didn’t wear a shirt to the interview, and I said I’d say “He must have had on some really nice pants.” – They ate it up like Tiger Woods buying a hooker. Prospective monkeys need to learn is that it’s not all about technical knowledge…firms want someone with a personality.

What about you guys? How have you crushed your interviews?

 

Funny story - for college admissions the white guy's office I walked into had a rubik's cube on his desk so I solved in in 10 seconds and we hit it off right from then on. I never ended up getting into Princeton, but at least I didn't make a fool of myself like my cousin he interviewed with the same dude. But I did get a call back from ULA and they were like "we'd like to give you a phone interview" and I was like "alright well, I'd like to take a minute just sit right there, and I'll tell you how I came to be the Prince of a town called Bel-Air."

 

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