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Had an SA interview at a boutique firm and just realized that I made a typo in my thank you email to the partners who interviewed me.

While I've read cautions against sending thank you emails, I felt that there was upside in this situation because I knew that the firm was interviewing a bunch of candidates that afternoon. The interview seemed to go really well, and I wanted to drive my interest home. In a few sentences I reiterated a good part from the conversation and attached the most recent version of my resume.

But the last line of my email read:

Attached is the most recent copy of my resume. I appreciate your time and consideration, and I would be excited to with you this summer.

Is forgetting the word "work" an auto-ding? Kinda freaking out about it

It's not great, but there's a fair chance they won't notice or even read the whole thing.

I was looking for the typo and I didn't even notice it at first. You're fine.

That's why it is a good idea to run everything through Grammarly.

Haha is this the guy everyone emailed me about? All us partners at the firm really got a good laugh about how we would never hire you no matter how good your _ product was given this typo

Odds of someone realizing that are pretty small. But you can't do anything about it now anyway, so might as well move on.

This is pretty much why they tell you not to write thank you emails.

This acts as a strike against you, albeit a small one. If you were a good candidate before, you're probably fine. If you were on the fence, this could have been hurt.

Nothing you can do about it now though.

Send another email:

*work

But with all seriousness, you shouldn't freak out about something you have no control over. For the future, proofread one extra time before sending. GL!

One of my friends with a great resume and a great interview misspelled the managing partner's last name very badly somehow in a thank-you e-mail (ex: Smyth vs Symf) and still got the job (which was a great job - not shitlaw).

I don't think you're doomed but stop sending thank you emails

doesnt matter at all. have a scotch.

Basically unhirable.