If you've got the experience and relevant academic qualifications and don't come across as a toxic, predatory, racist a-hole, surely that's all that matters.
i've always felt that the interview process is a bit of a sales job by the firm as well.
so rather than saying "how do you deal with difficult colleagues" (ie "we've got jerks here") i ask "what is it that makes it a day when you need a large gin and tonic when you get home" (it's inevitably colleagues as the answer), and then you can peel the onion from there
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Diversity
Inclusion
Consensus
Knowledge
In precisely that order.
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I hate the STAR questions.
If you've got the experience and relevant academic qualifications and don't come across as a toxic, predatory, racist a-hole, surely that's all that matters.
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When did you leave Winchester? [Macfarlanes]
What are you looking at you aunt? [Herbert Smith]
Would you mind stealing all your firm's know how as we're a bit short on the "law" stuff here? [Any US firm]
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Show them who’s right. Meet fire with fire. Wanna get ugly, I’ll bury you.
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ethical dilemmas?
management case studies eg how would you deal with an employee who was XYZ? (incompetent/late/negligent/difficult with staff and clients)
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there is only one question anyone cares about the answer to in private practice law - how much is your following worth?
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I’m not Jesus!
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Is what risky asks new recruits at his branch of McDonalds.
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He's not even senior enough to be on the interview panel, he just shouts it at people as they pass by him at the burger steamer.
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How much did your education cost?
Pick a benchmark - say 100k and give the job to anyone over that
Or basically what most city law firms do
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What motivates you?
v hard to answer without being said aunt
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Can a woman have a penis?
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Well done marsehole. You've done my joke but much worse.
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Lorena Bobbitt did.
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Heh at RR.
Do you smell what the Rock is cooking?!
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Heh for RR’s first and genuine lol for his follow up.
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If the bragging has come up to steam, I usually flog a „what is your biggest weakness“.
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Edd, why?
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You have 10 minutes to prepare a 5 minute presentation on 'the inside of a ping pong ball'
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Anything diversity and inclusion based. Can't stand manipulative deployment of that stuff but there's no alt in some lines.
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I was once asked "are you a pedant" and I thought he said peasant. He was a total tool. DLA in Manchester from memory...20 years ago.
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i've always felt that the interview process is a bit of a sales job by the firm as well.
so rather than saying "how do you deal with difficult colleagues" (ie "we've got jerks here") i ask "what is it that makes it a day when you need a large gin and tonic when you get home" (it's inevitably colleagues as the answer), and then you can peel the onion from there
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"When did you graduate from Cambridge?"
"I didn't graduate from Cambridge. I live there."
"Oh." [Patently loses interest.]
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