Comments on: 8 Fit Interview Questions and Their Fatal Mistakes

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 03:47:40 +0000

Hi Anonymous Associate,

Glad to hear you did well anyway!

Great questions that you bring up. With the first question, the easiest and best answer is to focus on the type of work/clients that the region is known for (eg, NYC = media/publishing/financial services).

Thanks for your suggestion – I definitely plan to speak to that in a future article.

By: Anonymous Associate

Anonymous Associate — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:06:19 +0000

I wish I’d read this before my final round interviews at a Big 3 firm — they went fine and I’ll be working there, but it would have reduced my stress level so much :)

Two questions I received but didn’t see here:
“Why this office?” (Bad answer: “I heard you have better work-life balance”), and
“What would be your ideal first project? Tell me about the industry, functional area, client, and problem you’d want to solve.”

I feel like the first question is one you can only get wrong and can’t really get right — but the second is fairly interesting. I spoke excitedly & off-the-cuff about a project that fit into the firm/office’s main practice areas, and I think the partner liked me much more after that answer. Might be a worthwhile issue to tackle in this post: how do you choose an industry/function narrative that makes you memorable but doesn’t warn of overspecialization or ‘bad fit’ in a generalist culture?

By: fritz

fritz — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 05:17:21 +0000

This is great tips. The point about mentioning specifics is definitely the other 50% of the a great answer. Thank you for posting!

By: Henry

Henry — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:38:05 +0000

Please I need set of questions and answers on logistics before friday this week.Thank you.

By: Toronto guy

Toronto guy — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:56:34 +0000

Q5:

just FYI: “lead” = present tense and Pb; “led” = past tense.

Pb is pronounced as “led;” otherwise, “lead” is pronounced as in “leadership.