Columbia University Research Analyst interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Apr 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a tightly spaced sequence of interviews—first a phone interview, then on-site interviews that happened just a few days later.

The overall pattern repeated for me in a way that felt more like a multi-step internal scheduling process than a single continuous conversation.

I remember the experience as fairly straightforward in format, but the repeated rounds created a sense of momentum that didn’t really slow down to digest the earlier discussions. By the time the in-person parts finished, it felt like they had already moved on to evaluating me across multiple conversations.

I didn’t end up with an offer, and the main thing I carried away was that the process was more about consistent evaluation across quick

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