I just got the call from BCG…

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…and it wasn’t good news. They decided to take a pass on me for this summer. The NYC recruiting coordinator gave me some good feedback, but some of the things that he stated as problems with my approach were things that I’d picked up as a result of feedback from other companies. Also, he said that I should have concentrated on talking about the actually software engineering work that I’d done more, but just about everyone else I talked to advised me to focus on my leadership stuff, which really didn’t come out at all in my actual project work.

Worst of all, I had to wait all weekend to get this news. The guy tried to call me on Friday afternoon and left me a message to call him back, which I tried to do several times in the past three days, but it turns out that he’d gone away for the weekend. It was not a great feeling to spend a holiday weekend in anticipation of finding out my status. I really wish that he would have just left me the bad word on that message instead of having me wonder where I stand for so long. I guess it isn’t BCG’s style to leave those sorts of messages, but I think it’s better to just let someone know what’s up as soon as possible.

Damn, I’m really starting to wonder if I’m really meant to be doing Consulting at all. I’m still waiting to hear from McKinsey at some point today, but I’m not very optimistic about what I’ll get from them either. Maybe I should have just dropped my resume for high tech jobs since that’s what I know instead of trying to jump into a new industry that I don’t seem to be best equipped to get into.