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Worked as a temp for years and got to the top of temp jobs when my recruiter decided to throw me in for a sales job at the agency. Hottest day of the year, running late due to traffic, walk in and the interview with the President of the Company starts almost immediately. I couldn’t stop the sweat pouring down my face the entire time. Mortified. After that I always budget 15 minutes to cool down in the lobby lol
Reading this thread is procrastination at its finest. Keep the stories coming
Got a Goldman Sachs internship interview where they didn’t specify the position and turned out to be an equity research role. My stock pitch (which I wasn’t fully prepared for given I wasn’t 100% sure what the role was) was absolutely destroyed by my interviewer who then said he ran out of business cards lol.
Thank you for providing some comfort to an event scarred into my brain for 7 years lol
The MD was clearly recovering from the night before or inebriated, blood shot eyes, slumped over the desk, and tie loosened to his chest.
He could barely hold a conversation and I eventually got an offer. Needless to say, I did not accept.
Got tag-team interviewed alongside 2 other candidates by 3 managers all at once. Borderline insane.
i have a new nightmare
15 minutes into a 30 minute interview my first semester of senior year, one of the two interviewers flat out said “i’m done here, you sure you want to do Finance?”
Next semester i interviewed with the same company and got an offer. The guy who interviewed me the first time was at the orientation and literally said again “I thought we sent you home, how’d you get here?” *jokingly* I almost lost my first job that day.
I got roasted in an interview at a bulge bracket when I was just starting out as an analyst. I didn’t know even the most basic questions they were asking me in finance. I promptly got a rejection. This was like 7 years ago and I still remember it so well despite having been on countless interviews since
A guy asked me how often I called my mother and referenced me shucking and jiving. Needless to say I didn’t take the job.
I interviewed with a man who spent the whole talk looking at his BlackBerry. He asked me perfunctory questions, just going through the motions. At one point he asked about things I would have done differently and I said I regretted walking naked down Madison Avenue with my team. He nodded his head and kept on asking the standard questions. I called the recruiter from the lobby and said forget it.
I had an interview with SG, this was before I knew anything about finance. I was told it was going to be behavioral, but the MD couldn’t make it so I was interviewed by the Analyst. It turned into a very technical/stock pitch interview. The first stock I pitched him wasn’t even publicly traded anymore. The experience was humiliating and I almost hung up the phone mid interview, but I’ve never been underprepared again
Interviewed at a hedge fund, the last round was with HR, where the HR person pointed that I was lying about a position on my resume since I was supposed to list the temp-agency for contracting jobs instead of the company where the project took place.
What happened?
I was a temp applying for a full time internal position and had Fridays off. They made me come in on my day off because that was the only day the manager was going to be in the office and refused to change it. Needless to say, I didn't get the job.
I was in undergrad and desperate for any internship. One place I applied to was for a financial article writer for some kind of Christian media company. After a quick phone screen I had to write a sample article explaining calls and puts, then after that round I went to an in-person interview. The office atmosphere was super old-school Christian white (I’m an Asian dude) but I went into it as non-judgmental as possible. The guy interviewing me had some solid-name F500 experience but it wasn’t really finance related and he kind of just looked at me without really asking questions. When there were long periods of silence I tried asking him something, but he gave really short answers and didn’t really talk much at all. It seemed like he was just a very awkward person in general. The entire floor we were on had a lot of office space but it was completely empty. Receptionist was super friendly though. Can’t remember if I got a call back or not
Went for associate interview with EB a long time back (when EB was not a thing). VP ran some funny scheme during interview with open questions and things did not get taken forward…
That VP did not make MD and left… that team is today looking for a head of industry groups. Recently got approached for the role…
My takeaway: Try to learn from your experience, never forget what happened and keep in mind it is a long game -> let it motivate / drive you…
I try to remember things for the old golden rule for if and when I am ever big cheese at a bank.
I had some lumps and learned, I also had to deal with a couple sociopathic and disconnected SVPs I wanted to throw out a window a few times.
Got crucified for wearing a button down collar dress shirt. One of my first interviews out of school - didn’t know it was an issue.
What were you supposed to be wearing?
Interviewing for a position that was a group interview but I was not made aware til the other interviewee never showed up