Ask questions that help you make a decision or understand something you cannot learn from the firm's website.

Good topics include why they chose that office, what surprised them after joining, how staffing works in practice, what makes candidates stand out locally, and how their work has changed over time.

Use the person's answers to create follow-up questions. The conversation feels much more genuine when you are responding to what they said instead of marching through a script.

Best question I got useful answers from was 'what surprised you after joining?'

Please don't ask 8 culture questions in a row lol.