Anonymous User wrote:What does it mean that you don't even get a ding from a firm?
No response from WSGR or Latham (tech trans) even though I saw a couple of you guys got CBs (WSGR SD cb and Latham cb)
okay so the way that the fair works for employers (at least my employer, who also happened to be at the fair) is they have a ranked list of people they've interviewed with the same way that you probably also ranked firms by preference. so they go down the list, offering their favs cbs and dinging the ones who just don't cut it. the rest middle hodgepodge is full of people they haven't contacted yet because shit happens and sometimes the firms' favs turn down their cb offers. in that case, they continue down the list, sometimes one at a time. so it can take a little while for firms to get back to everyone. if you haven't been dinged yet, consider it like a waitlist.
timeline is also skewed for bigger firms that also go to other career events, like oci for example. I know some schools have already done theirs and some are starting theirs. so although firms like to have a specific number of hiring slots for outside fairs like plip or other local fairs, maybe they came across an all-star at a recruiting event and that bumped down the plip people in priority.
same deal with people who mass mail.
this is why career services typically tells their students to apply as early as possible. firms only have a certain number of slots, and as these slots fill up it becomes harder and harder to catch a firm's attention.
