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A BCG recruiter ghosted me after she reached out to schedule an interview. How long should I wait before following up? What is the common courtesy to give to ppl at BCG. I don’t wanna come off as too aggressive but I really need to get this interview set as there are other pending confirmations Boston Consulting Group
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I think the character piece is more important than case performance in a referral (in that it won’t hurt your rep if they flop on a case, although ideally they wouldn’t, but it doesn’t reflect well if they turn out to be aggressive/rude/history of questionable behavior somehow/etc).
It’s generally assumed that you wouldn’t refer though unless you knew the person well enough to know that they’re qualified on paper and doesn’t have any red flags that you know about; and if you don’t, then you’d usually caveat it that way to the recruiting team. So it’s not like someone is going to get mad at you or ding you unless you keep throwing bad referrals in, in which case I imagine your reputation would take a hit