I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Freshfields (London, England) in Jan 2020
Interview
The online application form was followed by an online test which was followed by an assessment centre. There were only three of us at the assessment. We had a competency-based interview with HR/ Graduate recruitment and a motivation interview with a partner and associate.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Freshfields (London, England) in Feb 2020
Interview
It was a good assessment centre. Started with a written exercise (just an email chain with some requests; follow every direction and have a really sharp eye for grammar and spelling), then general partner interview that went over your CV and background, and some situational questions. We then did the commercial awareness/analytical interview, where we had 40 minutes (I think?) to read an article and write our notes, which we then got to take in and talked about it. I found this one a bit more tricky, but just try to think awareness, not argumentative. They asked me to consider the impacts of various commercial and tech changes on Freshfields and their clients, and talk more in general about commercial trends in the world.
Situational question: what would you do if you had too much work and a lot of deadlines, and the only other trainee who could help left early without an explanation.
The analytical interview was about an Economist article about the future of self driving cars. They asked what other industries have been massively changed by technology in the last 10 years.
I applied online. I interviewed at Freshfields (London, England) in Jan 2016
Interview
Half-day assessment centre, including a one hour competency-based interview with two partners, and another one hour commercial awareness based interview with two different partners. Also a written exercise that includes reading an email and correcting the mistakes, and then responding in part to another email.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why Freshfields? How would your friends describe you?
