What to expect from an “informal" final interview?

[Happyfeet82]

I’ve made it through to the final stage for a role. My first interview was more formal, mainly focused on my experience and skills. I’ve now been invited to a final stage, in-person interview, and they’ve said it’ll be “informal” and a chance to “get to know me better.”

Does anyone have experience with this kind of interview?
What sort of questions should I expect? How should I prepare? Is there still a level of assessment, or is it more about personality/culture fit at this point?

I’d say it was a personality/fit test, and in my experience were just a lunch. As long as you don’t drop a major clanger racist remake or something, the job’s yours.

i had this. I had had 2 great interviews with the team / my manager/ his manager. I was told that the HR interview was just a formality.

it was awful! I completely didn’t get on with this woman, who took against everything that I said! She recommended that I wouldn’t be hired based on her assessment of my personality! I then had to do another interview with my managers managers manager! He ok’d it all but if the other 2 managers hadn’t really pushed for me, I wouldn’t have worked there for 10 years and had several promotions! HR lady incidently left within 3 months.

moral of the story, be on alert until the job offer is in your hand!

And be very careful how you talk about your children or other caring responsibility and who cares for them when they are ill, ( I am assuming you have school age kids and or aged parents)
everything you say will be noted and may very much count against you.

Mine was much like @MauriceTheMussel has described.
I’d had my formal interview via Zoom with the person who would be my direct line manager and a senior manager from head office.
I was then invited to the local office to meet everyone else on the team, we all had lunch together and then the line manager took me out the side door on the premise of “showing me the warehouse” and officially offered me the job.
It was all very chill!

The job isn’t yours until you have a signed contract in your hand. I’d really hone in on their mission, vision, and values and ‘live’ those during the interview. Another useful tip is to pretend you already have the job and exhibit the attitudes and behaviours of someone you’d expect to be good at it.

Don't be fooled.

This is not an 'informal' interview at all. Anything but. They want candidates to think it is casual and 'off the record' so they let their guard down.