Rejected after 2nd round interview PwC audit summer 2011 NYC

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<p>Hi everyone,</p>

<p>I was just rejected for PwC summer 2011 audit in the NYC office. I am really curious as to why I was not given an offer. I thought my senior manager interview went well, my partner interview went alright and the senior I interviewed with went alright as well. I definitely think my senior manager interview was the best out of all of them and went pretty well. My partner interview was just alrite. Does the partner have the most say in who gets an offer? The first thing he did was give me his business card, which I sent a thank you note to after. I sent everyone a thank you note and received none. I also sent my host a thank you note as he gave me a card at the end.</p>

<p>I am a junior at UIUC and on pace to graduate with 150 hrs in May 2012. 3.41 GPA with part time job and EC's. I wore a dark charcoal suit with a white w/ blue check shirt with a navy tie. Also polished my shoes and no cufflinks/cologne. I am 5' 11'' asian male and I am not socially awkward. I got along with my host pretty well and had good conversation with the pwc full times that were there.</p>

<p>The ONLY thing I could think of that could have "hurt" me during my office visit was that the senior associate that i interviewed with was sick, didnt shake my hand ( she told me she didnt want to infect me though), and she wasnt feeling well during the interview. During my partner interview, he said that I wrote a partner's name wrong in my cover letter. I apologized for the typo but I know that it wasn't a typo bc when i came home checked my cover letter and the partner's name/email from the card he gave me at career fair and I was actually right. there was no typo. I knew everything on my resume which is what he asked me questions off of. There were no behavior questions at all. I put numbers down on my resume and if i wrong $500 for a fundraising event, i said about $500 when i answered his questions. Should i have been more assertive with numbers from my resume?</p>

<p>Any help from anybody would be greatly appreciated! I am not bitter but just really confused! Thank you guys so much!</p>

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<p>I have no idea what you’re saying here.</p>

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<p>you could have had a good interview but someone else might have had a better one. Sometimes it doesn’t matter how well you did, you might have gotten unlucky and the next person they interview was a superstar.</p>

<p>Keep in contact with the recruiting manager and try again as a senior for a full time position</p>

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<p>^^No offence but don’t bother. I know first hand. If they reject you the first time chances are they won’t even grant an interview the 2nd time. </p>

<p>The Big 4 don’t have hiring quotas for interns. They hire the ones they know will fit in and then offer full time to the ones that met expectations. If you didn’t get an offer that means they came to the conclusion that you weren’t a good fit.</p>

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<p>Hiring quota is determined by budget, headcount forecast and amount of work available for interns.</p>