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Updated Jan 17, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Technical Support at Latham & Watkins
Posted Jan 17, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 (took 2 months)
Pros: professional, courteous, asked all questions up front. Cons: time from application to interview took several weeks, time from interview to offer took several weeks, they appeared to be interviewing to passify firm policy and never hired anyone outside of firm, they promoted within after interview after interviewing external candidates.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Technology Support Analyst at Latham & Watkins
Posted Oct 24, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2010 (took 3 weeks)
Phone Interview for about 15-20 minutes with common questions regarding why I am leaving and my technical background. 2 in person interviews with the staff / Office OA / manager. Seems like everyone was friendly and easy to talk to. 2nd interview - did receive a frank statement in regards to growth at the firm which may be rather slow simply because this is a satellite office
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They actually increased their offer automatically beating my expectations on paper. I'd say submit a higher offer in the beginning and see what's up. Looking back, I'd wished I had entered a higher number just to test the waters, but great turn out still.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Legal Secretary at Latham & Watkins
Posted Oct 9, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 in Boston, MA (took 1 week)
Their newly opened Boston office is still adding on legal secretaries as the firm expands and pay is good. I'm a 20+ year legal secretary and we agreed at $64k, if hired. Interview process is fast! My phone interview was some ½ hour, followed by a call 2 days later to come in for an "interviewing/assessment" appointment to last no more than 3 hours.
Their office from 2 pm to 5pm was noticeably quiet, no noticeable interaction but an occasional muffled conversation in the distance. I never caught the real flavor of their office setting. I'm accustomed to phones ringing, people talking in various voice pitches, but it was akin to library stillness there.
Secretaries, here's where you make it or break it! Believe their testing is divided into 3 categories (the latter of which is a hands-on "advanced" Word 97 document test). I confidently breezed through the paper tests (grammar, spelling, legal terms, proofreading, and others I don't recall), but my KILLER was their final test—revising an agreement on the computer following instructions and employing only the firm's styles. After trying to familiarize myself again with its multi rows of icons (I switched to Word 2007 years ago), I sought out the interviewer to let her know I was dealing with a document involving internal styles and if guided might be able to continue at a better pace, hoping that another secretary might be allowed to answer my quick queries. She told me her document experience was limited, not to worry about it as it was included only because their IT person in Boston requested they include his Word test "to determine how much training the applicant might need." Trust me; if you're applying there be sure to hone your Word 97 "advanced" level skills. (I spent the night before the interview needlessly brushing up on Excel.) Word's 'help' button was my only buddy that day to locate some functions (their document test included doing these: cross reference, change outline levels, change auto. paragraph numbering within sections, revise page numbering sections, insert and edit footnotes and related style, insert blank unnumbered page, insert an index, table of contents, etc.). I was to use only the firm's style—whatever that was, I didn't find it. I sensed being doomed by not finishing the document but kept my moaning silent. The interviewer came out and let me know time was up and that she had to be elsewhere. I said little more about the Word test (she knew my handicap), thanked her for her time and left. There was no interview and I never heard from anyone at the firm. It made no sense to call the interviewer with the brush off I got. (Tests were graded instantly before the Word test started and the interviewer exclaimed I had done quite well!) Soooo, I'm composed, detail oriented, work well unsupervised, accustomed to major multi-tasking, shift hats readily to help out, articulate well, comfortable with my peers, wear little make up and dress business casual, look people in the eyes when communicating, smile, shake hands when proper, don't chew gum in public nor ask unnecessary questions. What happened—a complex Word test flunked me (vice versa)? My nearing 64 years of age would be my guess.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Summer Associate at Latham & Watkins
Posted Aug 23, 2009
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2007 in San Francisco, CA (took a day)
I did on campus interview, which was a brief 20 minute interview with a partner from the Silicon Valley office. This was mostly a fit interview. They asked questions about my resume and why I was looking to work in SF, etc. Then I had a call back that went from 9 a.m. to after lunch. They gave me an offer on the spot, right after the lunch with a couple of associates.
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You can't negotiate. You might be able to get some better fringe benefits - like moving expense, etc. but that's it.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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