This year, there's a healthy reversal, as dot-com companies recruit later in the season. It's creating a catch-22. So take your time. For the second-year MBAs, recruiting never slows down. Now, I see a lot of students who are sitting on one traditional offer and one dot-com.
Students face the dilemma of security wars.
Students aren't getting a sign-on bonus from startups, but they are from IBM or McKinzey. Those dilemmas have the potential of turning your office into ground zero. I try to deal with their penchant for risk and ask how risk-averse they are. We walk through a checklist to determine what it means to turn down an IBM or McKinzey job offer. Then I ask them how willing they are to put themselves on the line.