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Internship Offers!

February 8th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized

Yes!!!  Offers from both Bain and BCG (along with a couple other operating companies).  Very excited… at first. 
But now?  Feeling a bit melancholy, actually.  Not sure why… Is that it?  All this anticipation and preparation and it’s over within a week?  Maybe I’m just tired. 
Big decision coming up.  I think I’ve decided on consulting (at [...]

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Second Round Interviews!

February 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Interview week is over!  Finally – it feels like months since Monday.  15 real case interviews later, I feel like a semi-expert.  It’s amazing how much practice you get going through a week of this stuff.  A few comments:
BCG: I was pretty impressed with BCG.  Their second round consisted of two interviews, both on-campus (thankfully).  [...]

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First Round Interviews…

February 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

It’s Wednesday afternoon and I’ve finished interviews with each of the big three consulting firms.  Wow!  An intense few days, but I feel like it went fairly well over all.  I do love that each of the firms hosted on a different day… makes it much easier to go through the grind.  A couple interesting [...]

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More Case Interview Prep…

February 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

My first in-person interview is tomorrow!  I’m excited and nervous – HBS works the schedule such that they give an entire week off for students to focus on interviews.  I’m glad that we have this time off… although, I must admit, I’m incredibly jealous of my sponsored colleagues who are taking the week to lie [...]

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Investment Banking Conundrum

January 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

Wow – this week just blew by.  Between three cases / day (in class) and interview prep, I feel like the weekend-to-weekend time has shrunk to a very short dash in the timeline.  (Like this: – ) 
I didn’t discuss it much before, but I did receive one of the relatively rare investment banking interviews this [...]

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Consulting Case interviews

January 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

Interviews are a week away and I’m already intimidated.  I was fortunate enough to be invited for interviews at each of the top 3 consulting firms: McKinsey, BCG, and Bain (along with a few others).  Which wouldn’t be so bad – I have a decent presence and can tell good leadership, influence, and teamwork stories [...]

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Interview Invite Results

January 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

I should probably follow-up from a previous post and mention that, no, I didn’t actually get rejected from every interview on campus.  (Although, when you’re getting rejection notices daily, it certainly feels like it!)  The last few invites trickled out this weekend and it actually turned out surprisingly well.  Here’s what the breakdown looked like [...]

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