Info Session Leg Humping
Hey guys,
Long story short. I am appalled at the amount of leg humping, dumb questions, questions that bankers hate (how many hours do you work, is GPA important, etc.) are being asked. It wasted so much of their time.... I've been part of several info sessions both for FT and SA. The level is ridiculous.
One student asked an associate, "What was your GPA?" -> Associate: " WTF....I graduated from Cornell...Why are you asking this" look.
I don't want to target any race, students, or schools but please....read stuff online before asking them some of the dumbest questions in the world after having read stuff online.........
This VP even suggested straight off the bat for students to go online and look up information way before they come into interviews or info sessions. Again, these eager 4.0 ABC girls asked questions that could be answered online......
Really hope students recruiting take this to heart...... so your not wasting other people who want to talk to the bankers with legitimate questions regarding their experiences...You might not have access to this but please if you ever do get the chance look up info regarding some of those questions, they are clearly outlined here, wikipedia, company websites, application portals, etc.....
Important message, and no hate, but I think that this is the wrong message board to be posting this on. I'd venture a guess that the type of people who see your post on WSO aren't the same people that are asking "What was your GPA" during the corporate presentations.
You'll be surprised how desperate some candidates get trying to think of something to ask just to "make an impression."
I remember one time at an info session, I unexpectedly had the chance to talk to the head of Asia M&A for a BB bank. I was unprepared, tired, and nervous. I blanked out, and asked him weakly "so... how is M&A?" Not a fun experience haha, but I learned my lesson...
i had a totally different meaning of leg humping.
That Annoying Chick At Info Sessions (Originally Posted: 11/15/2011)
Just went to an info session, and there were 1-2 chicks who gave annoying laughs to every single word bankers said.
Just wonder if u guys have had this type of experience before.
ugh i hate these bitches, every time they begin to chuckle or do their annoying laugh i want to slap them
Ya it's called every time I'm within twenty feet of a girl on the phone.
Yeah, except they were gagging.
should of shown them the door to the back office info session
Your story here: Kids embarassing themselves at recruiting events. (Originally Posted: 12/07/2010)
Everyone has the story about one kid asking a stupid question, and everyone coughing "asshole." But do you have any truly embarrassing OCR stories? Share them.
At OCR events this year I see the same douchebag every single time. He thinks he's some slick Saudi dude who has a given right to smash IBD. He pulls up right outside the location that events take place at and parks his Jag illegally, which fucks things up for buses who need to get past.
This fucking slimeball then slithers out of his car wearing shoes that look like slippers with his initials embroidered on the front. He wears this suit which actually looks alright, but then he wears this disgusting cravat.
Recently, three tiny Chinese chicks were chatting to a BB MD when he comes over and overrides them. He reaches out to introduce himself to the MD, but before he can get his words out the MD says, "what the fuck are you doing?".
He then slithers off leaving a trail of grease everyewhere.
These 3 girls talked to no one during the recruiting event - never left the food table and never stopped eating. Worst part? They each took out a ZIPLOC bag at the end and started taking the food home! I was appalled.
These are epic so far.
By all means, keep the FAIL going.
How about telling a guy from a fixed income desk, 'i guess everyone can't do equities, huh?' response: get away from me
At the Banking and Financial Services Fair at LSE, the following conversation took place:
Rothschild Representative (RR): What interests you about financial services? Student: I want to be a trader at Rothschild RR: Ummm.. We don't do that. We're purely into corporate finance advisory Student: Ohh.. I want to be an investment banker RR: Really? Student: Yeah, really. Can I have one of those Rothschild pens now?
To be fair, those Rothschild pens are quite nice.
A few, but pretty generic...
1
Kid: So... what kind of companies are you doing deals for right now? BB VP: (are you for real look on his face) "That's... confidential"
2
About 5-6 students have formed a semi-circle around one banker and are taking turns asking questions. One guy pushes his way through and starts asking questions... then just stands there awkwardly in the middle of the group for the rest of the time
3
Someone asked a derivatives trader whether you needed to know calculus to be a derivs trader
Clarkey - did you ever find out what happened to that douchebag? Haha... initialed shoes...
I haven't seen him in a while. Someone must have complained about him though.
I saw a guy sneeze on a partner once. He claimed he was allergic to cologne.
Theres are priceless - keep them coming. Clarkey - did the initialed shoe moron end up in "equities in Dallas?"
A BB, IBD MD places a small stack of business cards on the table as he heads out of the room. With much fewer cards than there were students, a bunch of kids run up to grab one. One asshole grabs three and sells the other two for $5 each on the spot. The club board members see it happen and ask the kid WTF he was doing. The kid responds like a nonchalant douche and refuses to give the others their money back. The club president goes to walk the MD out to his car and quickly asks for the club resume book (that he gave the MD before the presentation) back. He opens to the the asshole's resume, tears it straight out of the hard-cover bound book, smiles at the MD without giving an explanation, and says "thanks again for coming!"
last fall, a friend of mine was at a BB networking event. clearly not jazzed about being at his third schmoozer of the week, he heads straight for a group of his buddies who are chatting near the open bar. he grabs two glasses of wine, pounds the first, asks "how many dicks do you think we're going to need to suck before we can get out of here?", then pounds the second. his buddies stand there in silence while he excuses himself to grab another drink. when he gets back, he notices a tiny woman in a name tag emerge from the middle of the group. she extends her hand to him and introduces herself as head of interest rate products.
GS breakout session with 6 people and me. It's 2 quiet Asian girls, me, GS chief of staff, his associate, and 2 dudes. "So what do you guys want to know?" Silence. I wait for someone to say something; eventually we get a conversation going about recruiting and the Rolling Stones article. Basically it hurt the employees personally, talked about LB's voicemails, etc. Suddenly guy next to me asks, "So, how much do you pay?"
VP looks at associate in a "did he not get a free Wetfeet guide," caught off guard look. 5 seconds of silence later, they force out a number. "Yeah, that's it... that'll make sure you can eat in NYC."
2 minutes later, the 2nd guy starts talking about saving the environment for 10 minutes, his environmentalist group that he heads, etc. etc. I thought we were going to bring up Hank Paulson and owls.
The two Asian girls never said a thing.
But I got 1 hour one on one with the very nice VP who helped me later. (He's getting a Christmas card).
I can delete - what posts are you referring to?
From April's post to ours, thanks Jimmy.
No problem
At a credit suisse event, this kid comes in, in casual clothes, grabs the pizza and sits down. As the people are speaking, he gets up, grabs some more pizza and sits down. As the networking session is going on, he is standing by the pizza boxes and munching down. Once he is done, he disappears and not to be seen again. I head one of the MD say "who ever eats isn't allowed to leave early".
Not that big deal but everyone noticed him just eating and not talking to anyone else
To Getgo,
I have no idea who you are talking about. I guess you mistake me for someone else.
OP:
Do your friends realize how pathetic they are? They go to recruiting events for fun. Not to network. Not to get a job. For fun. That is a tell tale sign that your fiends aren’t getting any pussy. The most boring events in the world actually seem fun.
They already had offers lined up as top-targets. Not me though (so that's what I was there for). I liked it a lot though, like being on the other side of the looking glass. Just a humorous story Buyside.
Sorry man – it’s just a sore spot. I actually logged back in to delete my post, which was unnecessary.
I have attended those events in need of a job. I hate them and always feel awkward. Everyone does. Mocking people at such an event is kind of like going to an unemployment office just to make fun of people.
So you mean to say it's a fun thing to do?
(jk)
I know exactly the feeling. I just listened (what else can you do?), because this was HBS's event and pretty serious. In my job hunt, that was actually my most lighthearted moment. And I needed that break.
I've never gone to a networking event for an open bar, but I have been to a lot of MBA and VC mixers for the open bars.
Site recruiting event at BB about 30 students total and a room full of MDs and associates (let say about nine total). Everyone was wearing dark suits, except for one overseas student that wore a full-on Mexican tuxedo. Yup, blue jeans and a jean jacket.
MD's opening remarks commented on how nice everyone looked, including the guy who had the balls to wear jeans. (It wasn't balls, it was just stupidity.)
Where was your recruiting event, the 1990s? I don't think I've even seen a jean jacket in the past ten years, lol.
Jeans with a jean jacket is called the Canadian Tuxedo.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=canadian+tuxedo
at informational session they had 6 firms show up one of them was the IRS i asked the lady is she allowed to carry a gun and do you think the irs will be making job cuts soon due to the deficit then when she said she was attending keller school of buisness and the kid said wow good school, i replied with its devry ..... he said oh my apologies LOL
someone needs to video tape these events lol
During one of my final rounds, the company took everyone out to this bar/restaurant. Drinks were flowing and everyone was having a good time, however most headed back to the hotel between 10 and 12pm as interviews started at 8 the following morning. One individual thought he was making big moves and was partying hard with all the fulltime analysts and associates. He ended up staying out till 3am, got hammered, and slept through the first hour of interviews. It was the shittiest thing to witness. He stumbled in all hungover and disheveled and still attempted to go on with the process.
Obviously he didnt get the job.
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