Was promised feedback from department head after interview. They told me they were currently busy with internal changes at the time of the interview so I felt that I was not prioritized during the interview process, but at the end after they promised to give feedback, they forgot.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How does your past experience apply to a scenario within our processes in house ? * They proceeded to give an example of how they work.
I applied online. I interviewed at A&O Shearman (Washington, DC) in May 2026
Interview
The interview was two stages and took roughly a month or so. The first stage was introductory and the second stage contained an assessment, which I found to be fair. The team overall was very responsive throughout the process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What my day-to-day looks like and whether I have familiarity handling conflicts through the entire life cycle of the request.
Comfortability talking with partners and clearing conflicts.
Familiarity with conflicts databases.
How I prioritize requests with competing deadlines.
Other personality and competency based questions.
The assessment portion of the second interview was more robust with a hypothetical case where I had to run the team through my conflicts analysis process. It was about issue spotting, walking through the potential clearances and advising whether the request poses moderate to high risk.