I recently interviewed at a top MM IB for a Summer Associate position in Chicago and found out this morning that I won't be moving onto the SD. I really like this particular MM IB for a lot of reasons, but I'm in talks with plenty other BB IBs, PEs and other MM IBs so there's no reason to do anything other than SITFU and get to work prepping for future interviews, SDs, etc.
What I'm trying to do now is go back through my notes to see if there might've been anything I could use from my experience to make myself a stronger candidate for future interviews.
One question that the final interviewer asked me was what other banks I was looking at. I told him that I was looking at some BBs and which was probably a critical error. Because some of the positions are in NYC and the cultures of NYC BBs and CHI BBs and MMs are so dissimilar the interviewer was probably like, "WTH is this guy interviewing with us for?" He asked me, "What are other banks telling you?" I'm guessing he wanted to know if I'd received an offer from any of them, but then I also wonder if maybe he wasn't fishing to see if I was targeting MM because I'd been shot down at BBs. I reassured him that his bank was my absolute top choice, but I was receiving strong interest from those BBs in CHI and NYC.
Has anyone ever been asked what other banks are telling them?
