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Back in my Analyst days, I messaged a colleague saying that I wished the manager would leave me the hell alone and stop riding my ass. Except I messaged the manager...
We ended up becoming buddies and I learned a great deal from him, to the point that when he left the firm for industry, he reached out to offer me a job :)
I spilt a 2liter bottle of Pepsi during a workshop, everyone around the table was a Saudi man, neck to toe in white thobes. That is how I found out they always keep a spare at work. I never understood how they manage to always look impecable dressed in white.
I spilled coffee all over a clients iPad during a meeting once
I promise you we’ve all had those days. The ones that make it through don’t dwell but keep moving forward.
Once told a VP during an escalation meeting that I didn’t have any recommendations.
First week on the job - didn’t go well
I asked a coworker how to export a word doc into a PDF because it’s been years, she gave me a death stare for about 10 seconds before bursting into laughter
Not my snafu, but a client’s. We were in deep contract negotiations with a client. The project involved two competing consulting firms, who had been asked by the client to work together on the project (separate streams). The client negotiator was secretly rooting for the other guys, and hence was giving us a lot of headache during the negotiations, questioning every small phrase or word, and throwing rage-fits at every major disagreement. So, imagine my surprise when he sent me the latest version of the heavily edited mutual contract file one morning, but instead attached our competitor’s contract, with all of their rates, total estimate, and contingency! Add to it the fact that their rate (higher than ours), had been approved without a single edit or pushback.
Final result: 5 years later, we are still working with the client and they have become a long term account; whereas the competitor and the negotiator in question are no longer around.
Partner asked me to put a chart’s data points “on a log scale.” I presented a chart literally having taken the log of each data point. Team fumbled to interpret and he said “can you just click the chart axis and select ‘log scale’ “ and then everything made sense.
That partner founded our firm too so it was a major fail in front of the CEO😂
Someone asked me if I was taking a red eye , I said no I am taking United .. I dint know what was a red eye then 🙈🙈
Not in consulting, but....
Asked a recently promoted VP to grab a water for me.
Freaking awkward afterwards since it was in front of 2 C-Suite execs...
However - the two of us became/still are friends.
Damn .... that is my guess
Phone unmuted me in the middle of me taking a call but telling my coworker all about my delicious lunch during an important workshop I was listening to. I did sell the salad I was eating very well tho
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It’s unfortunately nothing very funny, just a combination of having very little to contribute to case discussion today and making jokes that fell flat
I locked a gift in a day locker, forgot the code and the locker.
Eventually the story had a happy ending but I fear some believe I am an unstealthy thief lol