William Blair Financial Analyst interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Chicago, ILPosted Feb 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a telephone interview with standard questions, and then I was invited to a long in-office session that ended up being four hours with eight people back-to-back.

Up until the final interviewer, I felt like it was going well—most of the conversations skewed behavioral, and I stayed focused on my experience and how I’d fit the role.

The last interview completely changed the tone. The interviewer called me by the wrong name even though my resume was in front of him, and the first questions were directly personal—whether I was married, whether I had kids, and where I lived. I immediately felt like my qualifications no longer mattered, and it left me deeply discouraged because it felt like the conversation was driven by concerns unrelated to the job. The

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