A firm told me I'd hear by the end of the week... Forum

[Anonymous User]

But I haven't heard a peep. It's a firm in a secondary California market...could they just be lagging? Or is my rejection probably in the mail?

[thesealocust]

Sounds like promissory estoppel. Haul their ass to court.

[Anonymous User]

This happened to me with both firms I had callbacks with. Its now been two weeks. One firm I called on Monday and followed up and she said the recruiting committee hadn't met yet. The other firm I e-mailed Wednesday and received a response Friday indicating that they won't make a concrete decision on me until management gives a final approval on the number of summers to accept for this year.

Both secondary markets as well

[Anonymous User]

This happened to me with both firms I had callbacks with. Its now been two weeks. One firm I called on Monday and followed up and she said the recruiting committee hadn't met yet. The other firm I e-mailed Wednesday and received a response Friday indicating that they won't make a concrete decision on me until management gives a final approval on the number of summers to accept for this year.

Both secondary markets as well

Hmm that's interesting. I would think that the last one means you definitely are still in the running, because I'm sure they don't need approval to eliminate someone from consideration.

For my situation though, I'm pretty sure the recruitment has already met because my callback was on Monday and she told me they meet Wednesday.

I guess no news is good news at this point!

[oblig.lawl.ref]

You can't really try to read into the offer process. You have to assume everything's a rejection until you have an offer and keep on mass mailing, following up on other mass mails, etc.

For what it's worth however, I received an offer from a firm about a week after they told me they'd get back to me. And they also said the recruiting committee met on Wednesday and two Wednesdays passed before the offer. So you never know what they're doing or what comes up.

[Anonymous User]

What market? South Bay in NorCal or OC in SoCal? Big firm or boutique?
post edit: curious to market because when you say "secondary" CA market, I wonder what that entails.

I heard boutique firms lag on their hiring because the hiring partners might not have time to convene and think about the decision due to case management.

[Anonymous User]

What market? South Bay in NorCal or OC in SoCal? Big firm or boutique?
post edit: curious to market because when you say "secondary" CA market, I wonder what that entails.

I heard boutique firms lag on their hiring because the hiring partners might not have time to convene and think about the decision due to case management.

It was the SoCal office of a big firm, but I think your point about the boutique firms still may apply here. I guess we'll see!

[Anonymous User]

had a firm doing that to me for 4 weeks in a row. We will give you an answer at end of the week...We will give you an answer at end of the week...We will give you an answer at end of the week. Finally, after a month, they rejected me.

[Anonymous User]

are you LA or a smaller market? how big of a firm? is it v100, or non-vault market?

i've heard some v100 firms in LA say "within a week" and it ends up being a month.

[Anonymous User]

OP here. Just got the rejection in the mail. Guess that's that!

[Anonymous User]

Sorry to hear OP.

[Anonymous User]

had a firm doing that to me for 4 weeks in a row. We will give you an answer at end of the week...We will give you an answer at end of the week...We will give you an answer at end of the week. Finally, after a month, they rejected me.

Did you follow up multiple times? I'm in a situation where I was told I'd hear by the end of the week, I followed up the next week and they said I'd hear by the end of the week, now its the following week. Do I follow up again?

[thesealocust]

had a firm doing that to me for 4 weeks in a row. We will give you an answer at end of the week...We will give you an answer at end of the week...We will give you an answer at end of the week. Finally, after a month, they rejected me.

Did you follow up multiple times? I'm in a situation where I was told I'd hear by the end of the week, I followed up the next week and they said I'd hear by the end of the week, now its the following week. Do I follow up again?

They're not going to tell you any faster because you're pestering them. They didn't forget about you, you're just low priority.

[Danger Zone]

Got a phone call today from a partner I interviewed with a few weeks ago... to tell me that he didn't have any update for me.

Thanks for the heart attack, bro.

[whatsyourdeal]

Got a phone call today from a partner I interviewed with a few weeks ago... to tell me that he didn't have any update for me.

Thanks for the heart attack, bro.

what a dick. what's the purpose of that phone call, to mess with your head?

[Danger Zone]

Got a phone call today from a partner I interviewed with a few weeks ago... to tell me that he didn't have any update for me.

Thanks for the heart attack, bro.

what a dick. what's the purpose of that phone call, to mess with your head?

Probably yield protection, finding out if I had any other offers. In the end, I'm glad I had the opportunity to tell him I'm still interested in working for his firm.