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"Have you ever engaged in sexual harassment at your firm?"
How did you answer that lmao
Fresh undergrad asked me whether I am capable to assess his skills and may be he has to speak with Partner.
Tell me your three strengths and three weaknesses. And have you been transitioned.
I was a scientist before switching to MBB in health care. A PhD student interviewee asked how I feel now that my work has no meaning. Lol. (When you’re a scientist often experiments don’t work/aren’t that informative, so that can feel pretty pointless. It’s not like you are out there curing cancer all day long)
I've had a couple of interesting ones:
-After 3rd targeted question about Excel skills to potential inexperienced associate for job described as mix of data analysis and document stuff: "So wait would I have to do work in Excel? I'm not really looking to work on that. Could I only do documents?"
-7 minutes into a 15 minute phone screen with a potential intern: "How much low level sort of grunt work is involved vs client face to face? Like making PowerPoints that kind of stuff?"
-unfortunately this was a "getting to know you" lunch after the more senior person was hired but: "Tell me about the values around here - is it typical for a young woman such as yourself to have one on one meetings with older married men such as me?" For a variety of reasons, Mike Pence here didn't last long, but sure wish that had been a pre-hiring question.
Oh, and I pretty regularly ask people pointed questions about whether they are good with/understand that this job requires weekend and evening work if client stuff comes up. The range of follow ups I've gotten in response to that is fascinating. Everything from:
-"*Exactly* how many hours each week, and what time frame?" (Idk dude I just told you that it depends) to
"Why do you decide that people need to work those hours?" (I personally did not invent this issue in consulting but wanted to make you aware) to
-Once, a candidate responded with an angry, "Why would you tell me this now when I was so interested?" (So you could decide if it's a deal breaker? Sorry for trying to be honest)
Paint a picture for me. How did you solve the problem. Think question is standard but the “paint a picture for me, tell me a story” I just find annoying.
The candidate was asking you that?!