I’m a BigLaw associate interviewing for my first in house role. I have my second round of interviews tomorrow and they said I may have one more round or may not. When is it appropriate to try to get a better sense of whether the work life balance would be worth the pay cut? I didn’t bring it up in the first round but the company is in client service so I’m concerned it’s the same song and dance. I don’t want to sound like a slacker but coming from BL this is a huge issue for me.

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Totally appropriate to ask interviewers what their day to day is like. I structured the question as “tell me what your work day looks like, morning, afternoon, and evening.” I’d ask about weekends too. Don’t make it seem like all you care about is WLB but they should tell you what your workday and the expectations are.

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Very much agree.

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