I'm a junior and I have a really good summer internship at one of the top quant firms. But I struggled to get fall internships: I got one interview and no other processes, not even OAs or anything, and did not pass because they already reached headcount.
Now, it seems like most fall 26 internship recruiting is already over (or at least, that's my impression, I may be wrong), and most of the remaining fall/other offseasons appear to be from people pushing their summer internships to fall. Unfortunately, I'm not able to go through that route; I hadn't seriously recruited for summer 26 because I had signed a not-so-great full time offer and only applied to a handful few really good companies, but I reneged it after getting one of those companies.
Does having my current summer internship actually hurt me, because companies don't want to deal with a potential competing offer? I had figured companies don't want to be adversely selected by getting people without summer internships, but maybe that is false? I feel like my recruiting for fall has actually had a much lower non-ghost rate compared to past cycles, even though I had basically nothing on my resume back then.
It seems nowadays whenever you go on LinkedIn you see people doing like 3 internships back to back. Obviously that's not representative, but still, I don't want to get left behind.