Will I make it to my interview? Forum

[Anonymous User]

Land 9:20am at LGA, interview is at 10:45am in the financial district. Somewhat unfamiliar with the timing. Can't change flights without incurring the flight change cost myself.

[Anonymous User]

Probably. But I would definitely bust my ass and not do check-in luggage.

[Anonymous User]

It's going to be tight, send an email early tomorrow morning explaining that you may be late

[jdb2013]

Land 9:20am at LGA, interview is at 10:45am in the financial district. Somewhat unfamiliar with the timing. Can't change flights without incurring the flight change cost myself.

it is certainly possible, but also very close and putting you in a position to easily miss your interview. slight flight delays could throw things off, and some bad traffic can ruin your day. Your safest bet might be to take a taxi to 125th/lexington in harlem and catch the train down, rather than taking a taxi the whole way.

Assuming traffic is normal, at that time I still wouldn't imagine your taxi makes it in faster than 45 minutes. This could work, but as the above poster said - you better not have any checked bags, hope your flight actually gets into the gate at 9:20, and that you are able to navigate your way out of the airport and to a taxi quickly.

[Anonymous User]

Thanks for the input guys. No checked bags, got a seat near the front of the plane. Fingers crossed I make it.

Would the 125th/lexington be faster than a cab seeing that I lose time switching between cab and running down to the subway stop and waiting for a train?

[jdb2013]

Thanks for the input guys. No checked bags, got a seat near the front of the plane. Fingers crossed I make it.

Would the 125th/lexington be faster than a cab seeing that I lose time switching between cab and running down to the subway stop and waiting for a train?

it will still be rush hour timing at that point, so you won't wait more than 2 minutes for an express train to show up realistically, and your commute time from there will be about 20-25 minutes. a taxi will at best from that some point, be 20 minutes - but given traffic can be significantly worse. You are dealing with a bad traffic time of day, and the financial district is a particularly congested area with many narrow one way streets as well as many streets that are entirely closed off around wall street.

A taxi is a gamble, it could work out. The 4/5 train is much more of a consistent safe bet, at peak times in nyc the subway is going to be faster than a taxi.

[bulinus]

Who booked this flight?

[2014]

Thanks for the input guys. No checked bags, got a seat near the front of the plane. Fingers crossed I make it.

Would the 125th/lexington be faster than a cab seeing that I lose time switching between cab and running down to the subway stop and waiting for a train?

The wait for the train will be 6 minutes worst case scenario, the train ride is going to take probably a half hour. 15-20 minutes from LaGuardia and you have very very little leeway. I'd roll the dice with the cab.

My gut feeling is you make it with time to spare assuming your plane is on time. Just communicate with the firm though if it looks bad, they will be reasonable about it. Have google maps running on your phone so you can keep your ETA current.

[dixiecupdrinking]

I wouldn't switch to the train. That would require the cab getting off the FDR and going several blocks across 125th (which is a parking lot all day long). By the time you get on the train your car would be somewhere past Midtown.

I think you more likely than not be okay. The biggest issue IMO is the line at the cab stand, which can be interminable for no apparent reason at LGA. Might want to set up an Uber account if you don't already have one; there are usually car service guys hanging out at the airport who you can flag on Uber and will show up within 3-4 minutes, if the cab line is long.

[jdb2013]

Thanks for the input guys. No checked bags, got a seat near the front of the plane. Fingers crossed I make it.

Would the 125th/lexington be faster than a cab seeing that I lose time switching between cab and running down to the subway stop and waiting for a train?

The wait for the train will be 6 minutes worst case scenario, the train ride is going to take probably a half hour. 15-20 minutes from LaGuardia and you have very very little leeway. I'd roll the dice with the cab.

My gut feeling is you make it with time to spare assuming your plane is on time. Just communicate with the firm though if it looks bad, they will be reasonable about it. Have google maps running on your phone so you can keep your ETA current.

taking the max estimates presented here. 20 minutes to train from laguardia + 30 minutes on train + 6 minutes waiting for train = 56 minutes. This loses to the literal best time you are going to make in a taxi during rush hour by 10 minutes. Its not very likely your taxi will make it that fast, on the plus side, while you are stuck in traffic staring out your window in gridlock, you will at least be able to make an uncomfortable phone call informing the firm that you arent going to make it... Anyhow, as stated - its all a gamble, either way can work, a taxi could be fast, it could also be much much slower - a train isn't going to deviate in the timing very much. Pull out google maps and roll the dice. Good luck.

[patogordo]

um why don't you just push back the interview?

[dixiecupdrinking]

Thanks for the input guys. No checked bags, got a seat near the front of the plane. Fingers crossed I make it.

Would the 125th/lexington be faster than a cab seeing that I lose time switching between cab and running down to the subway stop and waiting for a train?

The wait for the train will be 6 minutes worst case scenario, the train ride is going to take probably a half hour. 15-20 minutes from LaGuardia and you have very very little leeway. I'd roll the dice with the cab.

My gut feeling is you make it with time to spare assuming your plane is on time. Just communicate with the firm though if it looks bad, they will be reasonable about it. Have google maps running on your phone so you can keep your ETA current.

taking the max estimates presented here. 20 minutes to train from laguardia + 30 minutes on train + 6 minutes waiting for train = 56 minutes. This loses to the literal best time you are going to make in a taxi during rush hour by 10 minutes. Its not very likely your taxi will make it that fast, on the plus side, while you are stuck in traffic staring out your window in gridlock, you will at least be able to make an uncomfortable phone call informing the firm that you arent going to make it... Anyhow, as stated - its all a gamble, either way can work, a taxi could be fast, it could also be much much slower - a train isn't going to deviate in the timing very much. Pull out google maps and roll the dice. Good luck.

20 minutes from LGA to the train is wrong / not a conservative estimate.

[beepboopbeep]

Agree with dixie and 2014 after doing various combinations of train and taxi to NYC interviews over the last couple weeks, that cab straight there is the way to go. Cabs can be brutally slow through manhattan but I don't see LGA->FiDi taking THAT long, assuming that the cab line isn't absurd (which it may well be at 9am - but this is a factor whether or not you switch to the train). FWIW I've waited way longer than 2m for an express at 125th.

[banjo]

Cab straight. You can check google maps and tell your cabbie to take the fastest route. Seriously, though, can you do something about this? Sometimes it takes 10 minutes to sort out your ID downstairs and ride the elevator up, and most firms ask you to come a few minutes early. There are a lot of things that can go wrong here.

[Br3v]

Let us know if you make it OP

[beepboopbeep]

Let us know if you make it OP

OP pls

[baal hadad]

Plz

[Anonymous User]

Its tomorrow morning so you guys will have to hang tight an extra day. I'll make sure to post during my elevator trip up to the offices.

[wiz]

Liveblog it in the cab or on the train.

[Anonymous User]

OP here, plane pushes off in 30 minutes. Last 2 callbacks are today and no offer yet. Let's rock and roll and hopefully I get to the interview on time.

[Anonymous User]

Maintenance on the aircraft. Goodbye job I may have gotten

[YOLOcontendere]

I was ~30 minutes late to a callback once, sweating buckets from running, and still got the offer

A plane delay is pretty understandable - just keep Recruiting informed and up to date. Your interviewing attorney's won't care at all

[Anonymous User]

Plane is delayed an hour

[Anonymous User]

A plane delay is pretty understandable - just keep Recruiting informed and up to date. Your interviewing attorney's won't care at all

TCR. e-mail the recruiter.

[ZyzzBrah]

Plane is delayed an hour

rip in peace


if it makes you feel any better, my power went out the night before an interview so i missed it. But you have the advantage of being able to contact them before the interview, do so now