Argonne National Laboratory·Research Scientist

Argonne National Laboratory Research Scientist interview experience

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United StatesPosted Jan 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a long, structured full-day interview built around a research talk and multiple follow-up discussions.

The main centerpiece was a forty-minute presentation with Q&A, and then I moved into one-on-one meetings that focused on my fit with future supervisors and possible collaborators and colleagues. There were also group discussions at the end, which kept the day from feeling like a series of isolated conversations.

Some of the questioning stayed tightly related to the talk—technical questions that connected back to what I presented—while other prompts leaned more toward how I was thinking about my career development and longer-term direction. The people I interacted with were genuinely friendly

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