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Interviewed for a lateral position in a very specialized practice group in a city outside of my own.

5/15 - In-person interview with three members of firm (two Associates and one person who was promoted to Partner earlier this year)
5/16 - Internal recruiter calls and asks how interview went. Told me that all feedback was positive. He then advised me that I would need to speak with an HR person for “fit” purposes and then I’d also need to speak with another Partner (X) in the group.
5/18 - Speak with HR first and Partner X later. Both calls seem to go fine.
5/22 - Reached out to recruiter and he advised me that the appropriate next step would be to meet in-person with the Partner who would be my manager. He asked how the call went with Partner X, first. Also note that My “manager” works out of a different office. Recruiter says he’ll reach out to me by the end of the week (5/25) with info on a date to meet with the Partner.


I have not heard anything. Did I get dinged or am I overreacting?

Calm down. Something probably came up and it’s a long weekend now.

I wouldn’t worry until maybe the first week of June.

2013 wrote:Calm down. Something probably came up and it’s a long weekend now.

I wouldn’t worry until maybe the first week of June.

So when is it appropriate to follow up?

Update: Spoke to recruiter last Tuesday. The last person that I was supposed to interview with was on vacation all last week but would be back in on Monday. Recruiter told me I was “100% in the mix, actually the only guy in the mix” and that I would meet with the Partner this week. It is now EOB Tuesday and I have not heard anything from the recruiter since last week. I told the recruiter I had another offer that I would need to accept/decline by this Friday and he assured me the process would be wrapped up by then.

I think they’re stringing me along...