Barrington James Consultant interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Manchester, EnglandPosted Mar 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first contact started out fairly typical—talking with TA/recruitment and then moving toward interviews that were meant to confirm fit.

But right before I reached the formal stages, I got a sense that the process could be rough around the edges. During my “pre-interview,” I was asked why I didn’t get a First, and it landed in a way that felt unnecessarily personal and a bit rude. I stayed quiet, but I remember immediately realizing it probably wasn’t going to go well from there.

Later, other parts of my journey reinforced that some conversations could be overly blunt or intrusive. When I did get in front of a manager, the questions went beyond normal professional fit checks and veered into extremely personal topics that had

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