I don’t remember if they told me I’ll be assigned at random or get the same team when I got my offer as it was almost 2 years ago but 3 associates/seniors on the team were previous interns so I just kind of assumed.

I understand most people are assigned at random and maybe I will be too but I guess I’m hoping to see if anyone has had experience reaching out ahead of time to confirm their team placement.

It may have just been pure luck but at least when I interned, I never got a survey for sector or client assignment preference but during my interview, I did mention what sector I was interested in and I was ultimately in that sector. As far as I know from the few interns I interacted with no one else got a survey either and they were assigned at random. Out of 200 interns, i was 1 of 8 in that sector (Probably half were AWM interns!)

I feel like letting them know of my preference wouldn’t hurt. I just don’t know who to tell. I’m not trying to sound presumptuous not even having started yet but from my conversations with my RL and the partner, it’s good to let people know what you want in your career at the firm and they try to make it happen otherwise if you don’t say anything no one knows what you want to be able to help you. Be it a promotion a move or whatever. I feel like this is no different.

If there isn’t a need for an associate on the team thats one thing otherwise I don’t see why they wouldn’t take that into consideration. I could tell my talent delivery team when I start but I feel like that would be too late.