So, I had a second round interview with Mercer Management Consulting early this morning and I don't know how to feel about it. it started with a case interview, wich I think I did OK on. It was a technology case and it should have been right up my alley, but I don't know if my line of thinking was what the interviewer was looking for. next, I had a resume interview that didn't really touch on my resume at all. It was more of a situational one that hit me with some questions that I'd never faced during any of these joints, "Like how would you approach a project where you had a significant learning curve?". I left that one not knowing how it went either. My last inteview was another case and I felt like I was doing really well on it as time passed and the interviewer broke out a bunch of exhibits for me to interpret. When I'd given my recommendation, he went back through the exhibits and, out of 6 slides, it turns out that I'd interpreted 5 of them incorrectly. At that point, I started to feel like Mercer would be giving me the gas face. Overall, I left there thinking it could go either way, which worries me because I'm starting to wonder about whether I'll be able to get a summer internship that I want for this summer. They're supposed to call me by tomorrow afternoon with their decision so my stomach has been in knots ever since I finished it up at 10:30am.
I also had an interview with Deloitte consulting this afternoon and I knew from the time that I left the second portion (the behavioral portion) of it that it had gone badly. I don't know why, but it just seemed that I didn't connect with that interviewer. I was the same ol' friendly me, but the guy just wasn't vibin' with me. My feeling on that was confirmed about 10 minutes ago when I got the call saying they wouldn't be inviting me to a second round interview. I have gotten a couple of rejection phone calls from other companies, but this one really got at me because I'm starting to get shaky and wonder about my consulting case interview skills. It's nice to get invited to second rounds, but, if I can't close on them, then it's no good.
I am hoping that I get some good news from Mercer tomorrow because that'll allow me to start realxing again without the uncertainty of whether I'll have a job hanging over me. Plus, it'll make it easier to go into my two second rounds next week knowing that, no matter what happens in those, I'll have a job offer from a great firm. This whole process is making my head hurt.
Posted by marquis930 at February 11, 2005 04:09 AM