Columbia University Research Analyst interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

New York, NYPosted Oct 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I ended up in a process that combined a quick phone screen with a compressed on-site schedule, and it felt like they wanted to assess both background and problem-solving ability fairly directly.

I had a phone interview as an initial step, and then shortly after I moved into on-site interviews.

On site, the setting itself was unusual—it was in a first-floor space inside a dormitory that felt like a closet converted into an office. I sat through multiple separate conversations as part of the visit, with standard questions in each, and then each interview would branch into a more technical question or a longer problem-solving prompt.

Altogether, it came across as more difficult than the purely conversation-based professor meetings. Even so, it didn’t feel disorganized; it felt like a

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