If you have a non-competitive GPA for example (undergrad recruiting), and manage to move to first-round interviews because of a partner referral, can HR still hold this against you in later rounds? Or is the decision entirely in the hands of consultants based exclusively on fit and casing performance?
In many companies, the way it works is HR may put iffy candidates through interviews, and use interviews as an extra data-point, only to still finally reject them at the end with CV/GPA as the main drawback.
Is this a concern at MBB?
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