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If anyone has been through something similar, I'd really appreciate hearing about your experience. Any insights or advice would honestly help put my mind at ease.
Btw I had gotten the first internship after directly applying on the internship email on the website (Ik it is hard to believe), impressed the partner and team got a call back, call back went well and got recommended for an interview.
I am not sure if I have good chances. I answered all the basic law related questions well, some more technical, I could not.
If anyone can help me, if I would get it or not then it would be helpful
Generally there 2 every day who have spoken to the partners they interned with and those partners have reached out to one of the partners interviewing. When your internship partner calls up the interviewing partner to put in a good word, it generally works.
Also when we reject someone in a PPO interview we are cognizant that were going against the recommendations of two partners who have seen your work in internships and have gotten much more than the 30 mins we get to evaluate you in the PPO interview. We're aware that the pressure may have gotten to you and you may have frozen. So when we do reject we always give HR instructions to speak to the recommending partners and set up a second PPO interview with a different panel if they feel the candidate deserves it. So don't give up, speak to the team that you interned with. If they push, you'll get another chance at a PPO interview.
Finally, I'd like to point out that almost two decades ago, a young kid at an NLU shat all over his AMSS interview and didn't make it through. I was that kid. And here I am. This one failure doesn't mean much in the larger scheme of things. You'll figure it out and get where you deserve to get. Failures will happen from time to time no matter how much you prepare coz that's just how the world is. Don't beat yourself over it too much, hold your chin up and move on. You'll do well.
All the best to all of you.
if not this, you'll get something better. Have self-belief and apply proactively. You'll something better