Argonne National Laboratory·Research Scientist

Argonne National Laboratory Research Scientist interview experience

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Lemont, ILPosted Feb 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied for a postdoc starting in September 2025 almost a year before I heard anything back.

About two weeks after an online application, I was invited to a prescreen interview that lasted about an hour and felt really pressured. The discussion included a PI and core project members, and the questions went straight at my track record: what roles I’d played on research projects listed on my CV, and then a deep dive into one of my published papers. I had to explain the main hypothesis and the methods I proposed, with several Q&A moments built into the hour.

A couple months later, I was suddenly invited to give a one-hour research seminar that was open to everyone at the lab. More than

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