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Why isn't there an LSN for firms already?

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 12:01 pm
by Anonymous User
To track dates of when firms act, to look at how various cycles go at various school and grade ranks, to see which softs play the best?

Re: Why isn't there an LSN for firms already?

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 12:27 pm
by timbs4339
Too easily outable. You'd have to break people down by school range, class rank, LR, WE, URM, etc. At schools that may send only a couple students to each firm or firms with tiny summer classes it would be too easy to out people. And at a firm with a summer class of 10-20 the report rate would probably be too low to give an accurate depiction. There are probably only a few firm-school pairings where this could work and the current TLS model of individual school/firm threads works well enough for those firms (large NYC firms).

Although it is really cool going back to LSN now and being able to out a lot of my classmates who used initials or screennames for their profiles.

Re: Why isn't there an LSN for firms already?

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 12:34 pm
by Anonymous User
I don't know that I agree, I think people could give little enough info to keep it pretty anonymous. Especially if they could give school ranges like they tend to on here.

Something like:

Top 1/3
MVP
IP Background

Then firms by CB/offers, CB/dings, Screener/Ding

I dunno for V100s in NYC anyway, there doesn't seem like much of an outing concern. Smaller firms or more insular markets, maybe.

Re: Why isn't there an LSN for firms already?

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 12:37 pm
by timbs4339
Anonymous User wrote:I don't know that I agree, I think people could give little enough info to keep it pretty anonymous. Especially if they could give school ranges like they tend to on here.

Something like:

Top 1/3
MVP
IP Background

Then firms by CB/offers, CB/dings, Screener/Ding

I dunno for V100s in NYC anyway, there doesn't seem like much of an outing concern. Smaller firms or more insular markets, maybe.
I think people would be more worried about backlash from their firms. They tend to keep hiring methods very close to the chest.