Ive interviewed people and I dont care if I receive a thank you note - I prefer not to get one given the amount of emails I get per day.
If you’re interviewing multiple people and get emails from everyone, after awhile, it gets a little annoying. Not a negative but I could care less and it wouldnt influence my decision at all.
Thanks for confirming. This is what I heard from some young people applying for jobs and/or internships. They said they asked at the end of the interview “where can I send a thank you email” and usually didn’t get any clear answer, especially with big companies.
I’m guessing - most big companies make a decision at the end of the round - b4 a thank you even comes.
The two I’ve worked at are that way.
Even when my son interviewed 2 years ago, he sometimes got callbacks within hours.
Nice touch for you and in today’s market, kids have to grasp for all straws, but unlikely someone says - ehhhh - they were average in the interview but sent me a thank you note - so i’ll move them on.
Thanks, hive! I’ll pass all this on to said kid.
Our S did the 2 day work trial at a SF startup last week. He was given a said project and was told to design and make it run, be creative, and at the end of the 2nd day, present it to the work team and there was a Q&A session. S thought his design worked and his presentations went well. However, given that it has been over a week and they haven’t responded with a decision, I’m thinking it will be a rejection. S feels it was a good experience to be onsite and get a better understanding of startup work and culture. Both days he was there, work continued past 8 pm. He got the sense it is a 9 am to 9 pm work environment. In one of previous virtual interviews, he was told they want projects to be considered “while showering.”
It’s very intense in my opinion. I realize some posters will say long hours can’t be avoided if young adults want to work in tech start ups and be successful. S is not looking for easy work or hours, but it feels like giving up your soul (and mental health). He was given a stipend for the 2 days and they covered travel and hotel expenses. However, his 3rd night hotel stay was not covered and the hotel he was staying at did not even have a room for that 3rd night. He didn’t know this until he got there. I had to find a room for him last minute and vacancy was very limited in SF - $700 for one night. That part wasn’t very cool on the companies part in my opinion given that travel to SF from Chicago meant he had to travel the day before the 1st work trial day and fly back on the day after the 2nd work trial day.
This hit my LinkedIn - real or not but I know a lot of kids are seeking sports gigs.
Octagon is starting a new internship opportunity for the 2026 FIFA World Cup and we need your help! We are looking for eager applicants in all match markets who want to start their career in the sports industry and work on the biggest event in history. Learn more here - Octagon External Jobs
#WorldCup #SportsBiz #Octagon #Internship #FIFAWorldCup
I forwarded this to soccer son. He planned to work for my company after graduation, but this is so in his wheelhouse I think he’s nuts not to give it a shot.
I hope it’s legit - I read a lot of stories from all of you about ghost jobs. It was posted by a linkedin contact - if that adds any validity. That’s why I put it here.
I know a lot of kids are chasing sports jobs.
I hope it works out for them.
This is legit. Home Depot is a World Cup Sponsor, Octagon is their sports marketing agency. So these positions are likely to be support to set up, run, and break down Home Depot sponsored events at World Cup sites. Applicants should do some background checking on actual locations of events though as Boston is listed but the actual WC games will be 45 minutes away in Foxboro MA. Could be there are events in Boston but more likely closer to the game site.
Probably going to be a crazy amount of applications too so people need to be smart to get through the obstacles mentioned many times above.
I know someone who lectured in the sports marketing (masters) program at U San Francisco. They are good at getting students internships at the local sports teams (warriors, giants, 49ers, sharks, As before they moved to Vegas, etc), and some of those turn into permanent jobs. For those who are serious about sports jobs and have the funds to do it, a well targeted postgrad program is definitely worth investigating even if the university ‘name’ may not be one that people talk about a lot here.
Changing tack - I think we have spoken above how grad schools applications tend to go up when jobs markets are bad: I don’t think this was mentioned above but I may have missed it - the number of people taking LSAT has surged this year. Seems to indicate law school admissions are going to be brutal in the upcoming round.
The August 2025 LSAT had over 34,000 registered students, a 54% increase compared to August 2024, and is projected to be one of the largest administrations in 15 years.
(AI summary)
I hope these potential grad school students have been keeping abreast of changes to grad school loan funding (and the new limits).
Interesting you say that - the person posted is an HD employee. I looked last night. She works as a media manager in sports marketing for them. Who knew that was a job :).
See you can do sports at more places than networks or sports teams etc. even Home Depot.
And her college - not one I’ve ever seen mentioned on CC so a reminder it’s not always black and white - you must go to this school etc. Belmont Abbey
I’m certain there will be events in Boston, Foxboro and Providence. There aren’t a lot of places to stay around the stadium. All would work for our son. It would probably come down to the number of potential hours per week this WC internship offers. There are seven WC matches at Gillette Stadium between June 13th and July 9th, so the timeframe is limited. He could earn significantly more money at my company.
Let’s hope FIFA doesn’t pull the games from the US.
Update on the job hunt for my S22, graduating in May…
A month or so ago he attended a session that a recruiter from Big Company B was hosting, to hear them talk about the work they are doing and the company generally. It’s exactly the field he wants to be in, and he was super excited by the presentation. He reached out to one of the presenters on LinkedIn to ask if they could talk. Well, it took about a week before the guy got back to him and, in that time, three jobs for 2026 grads posted that S22 was interested in, so S22 applied to all three. After some back and forthing, he and the recruiter finally connected this morning. It was a good conversation where S22 got to ask some questions about the company culture that he was wondering after the presentation and perusing the website (are they doing the engineering or is it more project management, do they have a program for recent grads/new hires) and he got to sell himself. He asked the guy “what more could he do to make himself a strong candidate” and the guy said he was already a strong candidate, and he’d forwarded S22 on for an interview, he should hear within the next week. Great! The only downside of the call was that although the company clearly does do the engineering and not just project management, they don’t have much of a recent grad / new hire program. You get hired into a position, there’s a few weeks of onboarding stuff, you can ask for a mentor, and that’s it. That’s the way that a lot of companies work, but it compares unfavorably with Company C.
Tomorrow he has a second round interview with Company C. This company does not do work in the sector that he’s particularly interested in, and the location they’d hire him into is not appealing. But. They have a two year new grad rotational engineering program. They talked a lot about the opportunities you have to try out different aspects of being a mechanical engineer, and the opportunity to work with a number of different teams to learn and hone your skills. S25 is really excited about the support they give their recent grads and the opportunities they present for development and learning.
He said to me today: what if I get both choices, what do I do? I told him that he doesn’t need to worry about that yet, because we aren’t there. That he needs to rock his second round interview tomorrow with Company C, and that he hasn’t even had a first round with Company B, so let’s not go counting any chickens just yet. But. In the event that somehow both were options, he’ll need to make a choice, and there’s no wrong choice. He is just thinking: industry I’m passionate vs opportunity to learn and grow. I told him that’s not all. If he were to get two offers somehow, he could also consider location, pay, and other benefits. But for now, he should just keep his eye on the prize and focus on the imminent interviews, and not the possible what-ifs.
So, all that to say, please be thinking good interview thoughts for my guy tomorrow. I’m actually rooting for Company C I think. It just seems like a really really strong base and launching point. Like I think it would be a great opportunity to really drill down on what he enjoys and the company is big enough to probably be able to offer that. And if, after some years it turns out he doesn’t love the company and he wants to go into the industry he’s passionate about, he’ll have the skill set to do that. (I do, however, hate he location - it’s far away from us and his friends, not close to an airport, and in general doesn’t seem to have a whole lot to recommend itself as a place to live. It looks like a company town, with not much else there.)
It’s great he has some bites!!
My son did a rotation - depending on the company, you do get a lot but then you get into a regular job, but hopefully at a higher level.
But one step at a time as you note.
Best of luck to him.
Thinking good thoughts and rooting for him!
My son was in a similar position with regards to interviewing at several companies simultaneously. He got two job offers, and both had deadlines of only a couple of days to accept. The offers didn’t happen simultaneously, he turned the 1st one down, continued interviewing, and got the second one. He was in interviews for 3 other jobs and would have liked to compare offers (one was very different from the others) if he were lucky enough to get any. Given the exploding nature of the offers he did get comparing offers seems very very unlikely, unless the stars align perfectly.