The rejections started early…

Yesterday was a rough day for The Kid. I had my Bain interview at 12:15pm and I was all kinds of nervous before I went in there. My fit interview went fine, but, when it came to the case portion, I stumbled a couple of times. In the end, I thought I’d done a decent job and had a chance to get a second round, but I wasn’t too confident about it. Overall, I would have graded myself as a B on that joint.

45 minutes after the Bain interview ended, I had my BCG one and that joint was a disaster from the beginning. The first part of the interview began low when my interviewer’s first question was “So what does a Sr. Consultant at Accenture do?”…When i got that question, I was shocked becuase I’ve never worked there and didn’t have a clue of how to answer it. I thought that I’d slipped up because I hadn’t looked at the roles of other companies and instantly thought I’d screwed up. I made up an answer that seemed serviceable and hoped that it would keep moving, but his next question was “well, what did you do in that role while you were there?”. Atthat point, I told him that I’d never worked at Accenture and he realized that he had been reading someone else’s resume and asking me questions about it…things that make you go ‘hmmmmmm’. Anyways, the case that I did with that first BCG interviewer went OK but I did have a few ups and downs in there and there were a couple of times that he had to stop to explain what he was looking for because I just didn’t get it. The second part of my interview was another fit/case mixture with a different interviewer. Once that second case started, it all went downhill. I thought I’d absolutely bombed it from the moment that she gave me the facts and I started talking. I left that session feeling like I’d been run over by a truck. Overall, I would have given myself a D on that BCG interview.

As I walked back to Schwab after the interviews, I felt like I wouldn’t have a chance to get a job this summer. I honestly questioned whether I should be looking at Consulting at all becuase it seemed that I didn’t have what it took to get through. I felt so bad that I crashed for over 3 hours when I got back to my room and didn’t get up until after 7pm. Soon after waking up, I got a call from Bain and they gave me the bad news that I’d been dissed. They didn’t even let 6 hours pass before dropping the bomb on me. Even worse, I hadn’t even started studying for my Finance midterm yet, so I had to cram until after 1am for that with the feeling of possibly not getting an internship hanging over my head.

I’ve got to run out to a mixer that Capital One is giving, so i’ll add another entry to give a summary of stuff today when I return.