Hi
@Jessica Booker
I was just wondering how you would advise someone to respond to this scenario as I ended up feeling very confused from this one experience:
At the end of an interview with a law firm, I was asked the usual "Do you have any questions?". I first asked whether the interviewer could tell me more about their time at their previous firms and what they learnt from their experiences before coming to their current firm. Surprisingly, they started using foul language at other firms and went on this monologue about how law firms need to focus on processes. After a productive dialogue where I politely acknowledged the interviewer's comments, I was then asked whether I had another question, so I asked what long-term plans the interviewer had for the local office (they were pretty senior). I was then shot down again and criticised for suggesting that firms had long-term plans. At the end, I just politely acknowledged the interviewer's comments again and tried to portray the whole exchange as a productive one.
I don't have any negative feelings about the interviewer or the whole experience at all; I would just like some advice from someone who has run graduate recruitment initiatives in a professional manner before so that I can learn from this experience.
1. Do my questions seem inappropriate? I genuinely tried to ask something well-thought-out instead of the usual generic questions, so I was rather surprised by the reaction I got.
2. Was it acceptable to conduct myself the way I did, i.e., stay calm and polite towards the interviewer? Should I have been more assertive? Perhaps the interviewer was trying to test emotional intelligence?
Thanks!