CS @ HBS

Formal Name: “Dedicated Interview Period”

Real Name: *** Hell Week! *** (muhaha)

What it is: a week and a bit in which we don’t study but instead wear suits and march on to interview for summer internships.

Hell Week got its lovely name because of the fact that for many people this week is indeed a stressful, tense and sometimes depressing experience. I think this is true mainly for people interviewing for consulting jobs – they might have 4 interviews in one day, in different locations in Boston, every day of the week. These interviews aren’t easy – in addition to ‘behavioral questions’ (”tell me about a time when you displayed leadership / teamwork / amazing sense of humor”) the interview also consists of a “Case”. The Case is a short business situation that the interviewee needs to analyze qualitatively and quantitatively, and suggest a possible course of action. My fellow classmates doing consulting interviews have been preparing for them for the past couple of weeks, so for them it’s more like “hell month” rather than just a week.

For other people this week is more relaxed, doing less interviews with less companies. But even for these students, they still need to do company research and practice the behavioral questions and decide which shirts to wear with which suit. As for me, I’ll update once I have results, not just interviews… at any rate this period reminds me of interviewing for business school – at least in that case it ended up pretty well. :)

Weather Update:

I have to say it’s not *that* bad (I shouldn’t be saying that, this is bound to bring a hurricane next week). Today was actually 10 degrees (celsius) and sunny. All the snow has completely melted (until the next storm…). In fact, this week it was warmer here than it was in Jerusalem!

A few photos:

HBS in the rain, a bit depressing:

Cambridge on a sunny day:

Boston half-frozen:

You can see more photos here: http://www.computersexy.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1839