Associate applicants have rated the interview process at Kirkland & Ellis with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 83% positive. To compare, the company-average is 67.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Associate roles take an average of 42 days to get hired, when considering 30 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Kirkland & Ellis overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Kirkland & Ellis as a Associate according to 30 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 50%
Phone interview: 18%
Group panel interview: 9%
Personality test: 9%
Presentation: 5%
Other: 5%
Skills test: 5%
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I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Kirkland & Ellis (London, England) in Sep 2017
Interview
Disappointing. I was meant to be meet 3 Partners but only one junior Partner turned up. The others couldn't be bothered. The junior called one of the others who eventually turned up for 2 mins and clearly hadn't read my CV/Resume. I was not offered the role - but it was given to someone who was interviewed by several Partners - having not met me the Junior Partner would need to sell me to the others as people have a natural bias to those they have met. Wasted my time and money. Disgusting arrogant London office Partners.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
General questions about my experience and explaining the firm.
Easy process, no hard questions, very conversational but not much real substance to the process. Hard to judge how you did based off the interview. Very little even behavioral questions were asked.
The interview was easy, three attorneys, two partners and one associate. Not super formal and did not ask much about specific knowledge of corporate or transactional work. Overall, the interview was easy.
Done through law school. Did not feel rigid. Was conversational. Mostly about connecting and ensuring we had a good relationship. Nothing technical or even remotely technical. Then had a follow up.