Mullen: Goldman Sachs initially rejected him as a cultural misfit after 56 interviews
Don Mullen · Don Mullen –Single-Family Rentals at Pretium (Capital Allocators, EP.324) · Jun 29, 2023 · at 9:12
Don Mullen describes his initial recruiting process at Goldman Sachs prior to later joining the firm under Lloyd Blankfein.
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“I then spent, must have been 56 people or something crazy, A person who's pretty well known from Goldman Sachs reaches out to me and says, listen, after 56 interviews, we come to the conclusion you just don't fit here. You're culturally a bad fit. We think you're talented, but not gonna happen.”
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