Hello All,
I applied for an internship to MBB and I changed my mind. The internship is next year june. i just want to focus on applying for full time offer from August next year. I prefer to focus on other stuffs from January than preparing for interviews. How should I handle if I get the interview? will it back fire on me? any advice will be highly appreciated. Thanks
Short answer: No, as long as you handle it professionally.
Firms understand that timelines shift, academic schedules change, and priorities evolve. What does create issues is disappearing or declining last-minute without context. As long as you communicate early and respectfully, this does not hurt your chances for a future full-time application.
Just email recruiting saying something like:
“Due to a change in my academic and career planning, I won’t be pursuing internship recruiting this cycle. I remain very interested in the firm for full-time roles and hope to reconnect next year.”
This keeps your relationship positive and avoids unnecessary stress.
You could reconsider taking the interview anyway, but you would have to prepare properly and this takes time (as you know). But at the same time, you would take this out of your way and an internship is a great way to secure a full time offer later on, and spend the rest of you college having more fun knowing you already have a great job. You can prepare properly in less 2 months - don't listen to anyone that tells you otherwise.
Not really. MBB hires a huge portion of their full-timers externally, not just from interns. The only thing that matters for full-time is:
Withdrawing early does not put a black mark on your profile.
Hi there,
Do I understand this correctly that the internship would be in June 2026 (start date, so interview process obviously before that) and the application for the full time position in August 2026?
I personally believe that in the grand scheme of things the difference is not that big if you are really interested in consulting and motivating to get eventually a full time role. Of course, I am not aware of your personal circumstances, so I cannot judge your individual opportunity costs there but ... it might be worth considering applying & hopefully doing the internship anyways.
If not, as Tiago already mentioned, I would agree it will not be a bad sign if you decline the interview offer well in advance and are overall professional about it.
Hope this helps,
Ariadna
