[mjoin]

interested to hear what other hners think about this. anybody did this for interviewing before? i myself had a beer with my phd supervisor as our first meeting, not sure this really help knowing whether we'd get along because turns out we didn't

[ghaff]

I've had a meal as a first interview for a couple jobs. (OK, I got accidentally stood up at one and the second was an informal chat "interview.")

It probably depends on the industry and company but, in general, alcohol in a lot of professional contexts is probably less, ahem, free-flowing than it once was. Dinner, cocktails, maybe the odd social hour but not in conjunction with an interview otherwise probably.