Harvard University Research Scientist interview experience

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United StatesPosted Mar 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview felt like a packed, calendar-style day of meetings plus a job talk.

It was scheduled as a day of back-to-back discussions, with individual meetings that ran about 30 minutes each, and then a 45-minute presentation where I delivered my job talk.

Before the day arrived, I had to prepare more than just the talk content—I provided a title and graphics ahead of time, the week before. Even though it was only one day, it was clearly designed to test both how I communicated and how I handled different conversations quickly. I left feeling like I’d represented my work well, but I still didn’t receive an offer.

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