Keeping up morale Forum

[bigben]

Keeping up morale

Give the men some whiskey.

[Anonymous User]

I've got low morale and I have 13 callbacks. Having a bad personality sucks.

[Anonymous User]

How did you all get so many callbacks in DC????

I'm the OP. To answer your question, I'm local. This, of course, adds to the anxiety, since it's easier to call back someone in D.C., rather than going through the expense of flying someone cross-country.

I'm local to DC and only had a couple of callbacks

DC doesn't give a rat's ass if you're local--they want top schools and top grades.

[Anonymous User]

2 rejections out of 3 callbacks so far. last callback tomorrow. sad. scared.

[Anonymous User]

low morale with 6+ callbacks?

Callbacks aren't worth shit unless they result in offers. In fact, more callbacks = more rejctions = lower morale.

[Anonymous User]

I haven't even had a call back yet. First one is next week. My morale is so low right now that I wouldn't be surprised if I started begging for a job on my call back. This wait is killing me.

[Anonymous User]

2 rejections out of 3 callbacks so far. last callback tomorrow. sad. scared.

3 CBS - 1 Rejection, 1 Pending, 1 Tomorrow. I feel ya. The pending one has already made a bunch of offers.

[dresden doll]

low morale with 6+ callbacks?

Callbacks aren't worth shit unless they result in offers. In fact, more callbacks = more rejctions = lower morale.

THIS.

[Big Shrimpin]

low morale with 6+ callbacks?

Callbacks aren't worth shit unless they result in offers. In fact, more callbacks = more rejctions = lower morale.

THIS.

+1

[Anonymous User]

The worst part about the wait to hearing the news of other people getting offers.... from the firms you're waiting on.

[General Tso]

low morale with 6+ callbacks?

Callbacks aren't worth shit unless they result in offers. In fact, more callbacks = more rejctions = lower morale.

THIS.

aww...no callbacks for Double D? that's a shame...

[chup]

aww...no callbacks for Double D? that's a shame...

Mods, can we change Tso's username to Passive-Aggressive Prawns?

[dresden doll]

aww...no callbacks for Double D? that's a shame...

Mods, can we change Tso's username to Passive-Aggressive Prawns?

I'd rather it addressed Tso's painfully obvious lack of a functional brain since he somehow deduced this from my general agreement with the idea that numerous CBs are worthless if they don't result in offers.

Word to the wise - or, I mean, moronic in this case - agreeing with a commentary doesn't imply that said commentary applies to you personally.

[NYAssociate]

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[dresden doll]

Mods, can we change Tso's username to Passive-Aggressive Prawns?

Are those prawns or kung pao chicken? Hard to tell.

The credited question.

[Anonymous User]

15 interviews and 25 mailings and 1 callback- top of class at T14. I know many people with 0 callbacks. I'd say OP's morale should be just fine.

You're doing something wrong. Unless top of class = above 50%

[Kohinoor]

I was wondering how you all kept morale up during the OCI/recruiting process. I've been on six callbacks in the last three weeks -- three of those callbacks are over the two-week mark (I've already been dinged by one firm). I have a few more callbacks spread out over the next couple of weeks, but after reading about people on TLS/xoxo getting offers, etc., I'm finding it hard to keep up morale during all this radio silence. FWIW, my callbacks were/are mostly with DC firms (I don't know if this makes a difference).

Anyone else feel like this?

Think of the people with no callbacks and reflect on your good fortune.

[Kohinoor]

low morale with 6+ callbacks?

Callbacks aren't worth shit unless they result in offers. In fact, more callbacks = more rejctions = lower morale.

lolno.

[wiseowl]

low morale with 6+ callbacks?

Callbacks aren't worth shit unless they result in offers. In fact, more callbacks = more rejctions = lower morale.

lolno.

I disagree. It hurts way worse to have been teased with a callback and still be shot down than to have just chalked it up to the randomness of a screener. Furthermore, not getting a CB doesn't necessarily close the door to working there in the future, since it was really only one person's decision. If you went on a CB and were rejected, it means multiple people did not like you and could not see you working there. In that case, the door is closed.

[Anonymous User]

Most demoralizing is getting some CBs and watching as the firms give out numerous offers before you even get to your CB. Every single one could potentially take a position away from you, and there's absolutely nothing you can do but wait.

[Anonymous User]

Most demoralizing is getting some CBs and watching as the firms give out numerous offers before you even get to your CB. Every single one could potentially take a position away from you, and there's absolutely nothing you can do but wait.

You could have scheduled your CBs earlier (unless you're talking about ones from different schools). I had 9 CBs, and I did them all within a 2.5 weeks of getting the first one. Granted, this is easier when you're only focusing on 2 markets.

[Anonymous User]

Most demoralizing is getting some CBs and watching as the firms give out numerous offers before you even get to your CB. Every single one could potentially take a position away from you, and there's absolutely nothing you can do but wait.

You could have scheduled your CBs earlier (unless you're talking about ones from different schools). I had 9 CBs, and I did them all within a 2.5 weeks of getting the first one. Granted, this is easier when you're only focusing on 2 markets.

I took the first slots available. I wasn't able to get a slot within 3 weeks for any of my CBs.

[Anonymous User]

5 callbacks down, 3 to go
0 offers, 0 dings, 5 still pending

The waiting is absolutely killing me. I have no fingernails left to bite.

[Kohinoor]

I disagree. It hurts way worse to have been teased with a callback and still be shot down than to have just chalked it up to the randomness of a screener. Furthermore, not getting a CB doesn't necessarily close the door to working there in the future, since it was really only one person's decision. If you went on a CB and were rejected, it means multiple people did not like you and could not see you working there. In that case, the door is closed.

The people who did screening interviews across the board and got shot down are hurting worse than you are. No callbacks from multiple screeners feels like you have a poisonous personality. No offers from callbacks just feels like not winning the playoffs. It sucks but at least you don't feel defective.

[wiseowl]

I disagree. It hurts way worse to have been teased with a callback and still be shot down than to have just chalked it up to the randomness of a screener. Furthermore, not getting a CB doesn't necessarily close the door to working there in the future, since it was really only one person's decision. If you went on a CB and were rejected, it means multiple people did not like you and could not see you working there. In that case, the door is closed.

The people who did screening interviews across the board and got shot down are hurting worse than you are. No callbacks from multiple screeners feels like you have a poisonous personality. No offers from callbacks just feels like not winning the playoffs. It sucks but at least you don't feel defective.

I guess another factor is preselect v. lottery. Screener rejections hurt more when they're preselects. There were definitely lottery-based interviews at my school that I had no business being in, on both sides of the scale. It's easier to shrug rejections/silence from those off.