For summer interns, everyone who worked with them will weigh in on whether or not to give them FT offers - even Analysts can have a large impact on a yes/no decision because they often work most closely with summer interns!

Honestly it won’t affect your chances of a FT offer at all - they will forget about it by then, so I would focus on doing well during your internship and you should be fine.

About that returning offer and asking questions. I’ve been told that it’s good to keep asking questions… But, I annoyed the HR person by asking apparently too many questions, before the start of my summer internship. They gave me some constructive criticism in a formal email, and I apologized and recognized my error. I’m afraid that this might destroy my chances at a full time offer… it seems terrible to be known as the “over-eager person who asks too many questions”. Any suggestions?

That’s right - you are going to be working MORE as a summer intern than as a full time analyst. You aren’t going to be staffed on one or two deals, you are going to be staffed on anything. Did the person you’ve been working with the past week go home early because by some stroke of God the VP didn’t spring some BS last minute change on him at the last minute? That’s great, right? You can go home early too… until you see the 2nd year managing analyst stroll in and tell you to do research something for him that he may or may not read 3 months from now.

The hardest part about this whole ordeal is definitely the managing analysts. It’s pretty easy to know your role and stfu when it comes to dealing with associate and above. But when you have to listen to someone that is one year older than you talking about how easy you have it, and how back in their day things were much tougher and you actually had to work hard for your bonus, it really takes some serious restraint not to slap them in the face.