Goldman Sachs Deck
A GS interviewer asks: 'What other banks are you interviewing with?' How do you handle it?
Model answer
Play it with honesty plus a clear hierarchy
- be truthful — recruiting circles overlap and getting caught in a bluff is fatal
- name a small, credible set of comparable firms, which signals…
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