don't know martingale, but I am not sure I understand the rule you are describing.  is it that if you interviewed at GS over 1.5 years ago, then they take a golden piss on yo ass?

I've had loads of interviews with them over the years (and never gained employment).  I don't think your rule is true.

first, I sent them a rambling letter about a thousand years ago.  then, about 500 years ago, a sleazy and swarthy well known recruiter in NY hooked me up with Armin Avenessian....went to see him and he pulled up my rambling letter from 500 years prior to that...that was funny, he was nice and pleasant, but I didn't get the job.

then, about 100 years later, I had an interview with the most uptight Dutch dude (if you can imagine a dutch dude being uptight...).  then, about 100 years after that I interviewed with Derman's group...no good.

Ok, I don't think I have your real email, but hey I knew this, my cv is at

www.xianglong1972.com

As time goes, I might go back to china open a entertainment biz, I will invite you to be the part planner

Martingale wrote: I was told by one guy that Goldman S**s has policy that they don't interview people after a certain period of time who apllied before( longer than 1.5 years), what's that crap's all about?  

Back to the original post. If I understood it correctly they don’t want to interview you because you applied more than 1.5 ago. That’s pretty weird…

I’ve heard of banks that don’t interview you if you applied and were interviewed there within last year or two, bur I’ve never heard that they don’t want to interview if you applied “too long” ago. 

Actually I’ve heard many different things… Some people told me that certain banks didn’t want to see them again if they were interviewed there in the last year or two. Others said that they interviewed with the same group in the same bank (for different openings) for several times during the same year. Also some people say that your resume is usually thrown away if received from more than one HH (or if they received it independently from you and your HH) since it’s not clear who should be paid to in case they hire you, others say that they applied through multiple headhunters and still got interviews.

I guess there’s no universal rule and all this varies from bank to bank (as well as for different groups within a bank) and changes pretty often even for the same bank.

I tried to raise similar questions on W***t for several times but there’s nothing interesting going on in their Career Forum for quite a while

Nonius wrote: I personally do not think writting letters to HR departments makes sense.  To me, that just adds a layer of middlemen/middlewomen.  Of course, you can't avoid them forever, but what I say is market yourself directly to desks, not to GS as an entity.

My reasoning was the same until some time ago somebody told me that he’s got several interviews by applying to HR (i.e. through their website). I’m still not sure whether it’s worth applying through the website since it seems to me that the harm which entering HR database causes drastically outweighs the benefit of having a small chance to get an interview, so I’ll probably won’t apply through banks websites

Drews, don't take this the wrong way, but if I was your boss, and gave you a project to work on, and you came back to me and said 'look, it doesn't matter what we do,since we can't outperform the mkt', I'd be tempted to throw you out the window, never mind fire you...

Do you really think someone is going to pay you the big bucks for you to tell them its all random??

(note that I haven't addressed whether your statement is actually true or not (I believe it isn't, but thats not even relevant to the discussion)).

Crap question.

Basically, you could answer

1. Long detailed boring answer showing how much you know
2. Don't know (correct answer, but you were asked what you 'think')
3. "Up - My entire student loan is in OTM calls"

I like #3 best.