Bain & Company Waiting longer than a week now for final feedback on the interviews - Reached out to Recruiting who told me that Partners had no chance to meet up so far to discuss feedback and agree on the outcome - Recruiting mentioned that they would be on it and respond asap. Has anyone experienced the same and/or is this indicator of being on the waitlist? Does this mean chances of a „yes“ are pretty low? Partners actually gave me good feedback at the end of each individual interview. Bain & Company
Don’t reach out to partner. You have a response, be patient. People have day jobs and it is not unusual
...and hiring is super slowed down across the industry right now.
To answer your two questions directly, one, it is not explicitly a sign of waitlist. It could mean waitlist, it could mean that the partners really have not had a chance to talk, it could mean that your particular office is waiting to speak to all of the applicants before making any offers, or it could be that they have made some offers but not all, and it’s not a waitlist but it’s also not an immediate yes. In other words, you can’t read anything into it.
In terms of reaching out to the partner for a status update, no, I would not do that. As noted in other responses, you have an answer and the next step. The only outreach I might consider making is if it were really true that Bain is your first choice, and you would accept an offer more or less on the spot, you could convey that To the recruiter and or to the partner. It probably would not make a difference either way, but at the margin, knowing that they would not have to invest in getting you to sign might make them look slightly more favorably on you than someone they thought would be a fight. Definitely do not lie about this though.
Agree it is not unusual, I know a person that waited 3 week for the final feedback and received the offer
And should I directly reach out to a Partner and ask or would that be not a wise idea?
Not wise