Harvard University Research Scientist interview experience

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United StatesPosted Feb 2014 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied online and then got contacted within a week to schedule an interview.

On the day of the interview, I ended up meeting multiple people, each for roughly 30 minutes, spread across the day. Most of the questions were rooted in my prior experience—how I’d approached past problems and the way I would tackle current ones—with a smaller number of behavioral-style questions mixed in.

A couple of days later, I came back for a follow-up interview with a few more people. The whole thing wrapped up within a few weeks, which made it feel efficient and fairly focused. I remember leaving with the sense that it was mainly a fit-and-methods conversation, and that the pace of

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