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When to give up hope for callbacks?
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2019 9:45 am
by Anonymous User
Had OCI screeners this week in a secondary market and haven’t heard back from most of them. When would you give up hope of heading back?
Re: When to give up hope for callbacks?
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2019 10:43 am
by soft blue
Anonymous User wrote:Had OCI screeners this week in a secondary market and haven’t heard back from most of them. When would you give up hope of heading back?
A general rule of thumb is 2 business days -- if you interviewed on e.g. Monday and haven't heard by Wednesday night, almost certainly no luck. On rare occasion, people will get 1-2 week later CBs, but that's very very very uncommon.
If you are travelling to this market for a CB, you can email recruiters to let them know that. They're sympathetic to wanting to schedule everything in one go.
Re: When to give up hope for callbacks?
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2019 11:08 am
by jkpolk
Anonymous User wrote:Anonymous User wrote:Had OCI screeners this week in a secondary market and haven’t heard back from most of them. When would you give up hope of heading back?
A general rule of thumb is 2 business days -- if you interviewed on e.g. Monday and haven't heard by Wednesday night, almost certainly no luck. On rare occasion, people will get 1-2 week later CBs, but that's very very very uncommon.
If you are travelling to this market for a CB, you can email recruiters to let them know that. They're sympathetic to wanting to schedule everything in one go.
Plenty of big firms have weekly (or less frequent) hiring committee meetings, especially in a secondary market without a huge assembly line summer class (so offers would go out on a rolling basis after each committee meeting). I do think 2 weeks is getting towards the outside date typically though.
Re: When to give up hope for callbacks?
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2019 12:03 pm
by QContinuum
It depends on the firm (and on the screener interviewer - some take longer to submit their evals). Callback notifications typically arrive anytime from same day to seven/eight days. Most callbacks arrive within 1-4 days, but 5-7 isn't unusual. Same-day callback invites are extremely rare and only a very small handful of firms do that.
If you haven't heard anything by the 14-day mark, you've probably either been rejected or waitlisted, and should assume you're very unlikely to receive a CB.