Harvard University Research Scientist interview experience

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United StatesPosted Jul 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After applying, I first received an online coding task that was meant to narrow down the candidate pool.

Once I completed it, I moved into a technical screen that mixed practical quantitative work with deeper methodological questions. I worked with RCT-style data using Stata, and they pushed on details like choosing standard errors, dealing with missing values and outliers. It was the kind of material that lined up with my grad econometrics background, and I’d ballpark it as taking around 20 hours.

The interview then shifted into a blend of behavioral and technical questions. I was asked classic “tell me about a time you handled failure” style prompts, and then I got a scenario about assessing

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