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bk1 wrote:

thejaquio wrote:That didn't fully come through. The irony was a bit too subtle, especially seeing as how his mock-stories closely mirror the lameness of many of the unnecessarily long female stories being passed off here as legitimately "bad interview moments," just so they can talk about themselves.

But on second thought, man do I feel retarded. Gonna edit and hope no one else notices my exceedingly low IQ.

Enjoy your time out.

Anonymous User wrote:Approximately 2013, I had a night callback with Skadden in NYC that started at 6 pm. All attorneys still in their offices looking miserable. The whole interview sucked ass - it was immediately obvious that it was not the right fit for me. This is probably because I am not a frat boy.

After the interview ended around 9 pm, the HR person broke the candidate group out into small sub-groups. Each group had a few candidates and a few younger attorneys from the same school - or at least that was the intent. I want to a non-Ivy / non-T14, still a fairly good school, and obviously there were no attorneys at Skadden who were alums at my school. Thus, I was placed with the Michigan Law group.

We go to this very strange basement Japanese steak house in Manhattan (all kind of a blur...no idea where in the city this place was). We sit down and one of the candidates decides to ask one of the attorneys "how on the record" this dinner is. (Obviously a newb.) Of course, they tell her it's a casual dinner that is not really on the record. For some reason, she takes this as a cue to begin telling a story about some famous professor at Michigan Law. Manages to work in a discussion about her professor's penis and tells a long and very involved story involving such penis. I wish I were kidding. I'm sitting there trying to figure out how this crazy person ever managed to get past OCI and to a callback at Skadden...and trying to keep my mouth from dropping down to the floor. No one else seemed fazed by this conversation. The whole ordeal ended at about 2 am. The dinner cost about $850 (I managed a glance at the check). I slept about an hour because I had an early morning flight back to catch my classes at law school the next day.

I immediately cancelled all of my other NYC call backs and accepted an offer at a non-Skadden non-NYC firm.

thejaquio wrote:

No, it shouldn't be though. And I'm gonna have to request that you (A Nony Mouse) keep your dicta to yourself and keep your posts on the topic of bad interview moments.

thejaquio wrote:

PennBull wrote:

thejaquio wrote:

rpupkin wrote:Callback at a V35 firm. I'm waiting in the lobby for someone to bring me up to the office. All of a sudden, I let out a sneeze. A man walking by says "bless you." Later, I learned that the man was the managing partner! I was horrified.

Got an offer.

This is literally the worst story I have ever heard.

I have no idea what possessed you to post it on this board. We are all less entertained for having heard it. Thank you, and may God have mercy on your soul.

thats the joke, dipshit

That didn't fully come through. The irony was a bit too subtle, especially seeing as how his mock-stories closely mirror the lameness of many of the unnecessarily long female stories being passed off here as legitimately "bad interview moments," just so they can talk about themselves.

But on second thought, man do I feel retarded. Gonna edit and hope no one else notices my exceedingly low IQ.

zot1 wrote:

Anonymous User wrote:I graduated in one of the "lost years" (like 2010 through 2012) and pretty sure a bunch of screeners were jokes.

Not my interview experience, but my friend had an OCI screener where he revealed that he juggles. Interviewer hands him 3 apples that were sitting in the room and asks him to juggle. He juggles the three apples and the two interviewers oooh and ahhh. No callback.

And they didn't even pay for it!

masque du pantsu wrote:

thejaquio wrote:

PennBull wrote:

thejaquio wrote:

rpupkin wrote:Callback at a V35 firm. I'm waiting in the lobby for someone to bring me up to the office. All of a sudden, I let out a sneeze. A man walking by says "bless you." Later, I learned that the man was the managing partner! I was horrified.

Got an offer.

This is literally the worst story I have ever heard.

I have no idea what possessed you to post it on this board. We are all less entertained for having heard it. Thank you, and may God have mercy on your soul.

thats the joke, dipshit

That didn't fully come through. The irony was a bit too subtle, especially seeing as how his mock-stories closely mirror the lameness of many of the unnecessarily long female stories being passed off here as legitimately "bad interview moments," just so they can talk about themselves.

But on second thought, man do I feel retarded. Gonna edit and hope no one else notices my exceedingly low IQ.

Seeing all of this weirdness is actually going to cause me to come up with some questions designed to tease out latent sexism, which i will ask to every candidate i interview from now on. I never would have thought i had to do that, but after this shit i just don't know.

CravathDunn wrote:What kind of question could tease that out at an interview? "Do you hate members of ____ sex?" "No." "Okay then."

Anonymous User wrote:Did a lateral callback interview with a biglaw firm some time ago. Met with 4 partners and then an associate. The partners were all friendly, upbeat, and tried to sell me on the firm. When I got to the associate, it quickly became clear that he hated his job and the firm. He had no questions for me, so I asked him about things about the firm. He contradicted everything the partners said in short, curt answers (e.g., Me: Partner X told me associates are able to do Y and Z work and have close contact with the clients. Has this been your experience? Him: No.). He physically looked like he'd lost his will to live. I gave up trying to conduct an actual interview with him after a few minutes and started asking him questions about his hobbies to see if he'd perk up a little. He did, slightly.

No offer, but no regrets about it.

Anonymous User wrote:Also not too bad, but I was interviewing at a non-NY office of a big NY firm and everything was going fine, interviews with mix of partners and associates, kind of an unremarkable lunch, but I was the last interview of the day on a Friday, so this relatively small office was pretty empty so it was just me wandering between interviewers in their scattered offices. My last interviewer was a 1st year associate, who clearly felt awkward, and told me as soon as I sat down that he had just finished behavioral interviewing training, so please forgive him for trying to figure it all out. This threw me a bit, but you roll with whatever of course, so we banter a bit, and then he takes out a copy of my writing sample, which he had clearly read and marked up in red and blue ink, and started asking me pretty detailed questions about the background cases and my thoughts on the legal issue. Luckily I had actually reviewed the thing a few weeks before for OCI so it was kind of fresh in my mind, so I faked my way through that pretty well, but it felt just like he was some other guy in class and we were doing an exercise in how to do interviews, and he was pretending to be an interviewing attorney, but his performance wasn't very convincing. When it was time to go he was visibly relieved, and honestly I think it was way worse for him than for me. No offer.

Toni V wrote:I recently lateralled. During the lateral process I visited several out-of-state firms and during one interview a lady partner asked me if I had looked into buying a house and what area was I looking at. I hadn’t yet looked. With that answer her expression immediately soured ― I never heard back from her firm.

nevdash wrote:

Toni V wrote:I recently lateralled. During the lateral process I visited several out-of-state firms and during one interview a lady partner asked me if I had looked into buying a house and what area was I looking at. I hadn’t yet looked. With that answer her expression immediately soured ― I never heard back from her firm.

*on a first date*

"So, have you thought about what we should name our kids?"

Anonymous User wrote:I referred to the wrong firm at least 5 times during a screener.

no callback.

pml87 wrote:Interview for UChicago Law with the admission dean.

Things immediately started out badly. The dean seemed unenthusiastic and downright rude. I have received another T-14 offer and money at this point so I was disinclined to tolerate the rudeness.

Dean: "so what can I tell you about UChicago?"
Me: "I understand that Chicago can be a rough neighborhood. Do you have any recommendation for living there?"
Dean: (obv caught off-guard, took her 5 seconds to recover) "well, you know, any big city can be complicated and blah blah"
Me: "but I have heard Chicago is also very gentrified and I should stay away from some area?"
Dean: "again, ANY city can be blah blah"
Dinged in less than 24 hours.

Sadly I had no such moment during OCI.