Lawrence Berkeley Lab·Research Scientist

Lawrence Berkeley Lab Research Scientist interview experience

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United StatesPosted Apr 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

What started as outreach quickly turned into a tightly connected research-focused process.

The PI contacted me because my research matched an open grant they were pursuing. Over the next couple of months, I joined multiple Zoom sessions with the PI, which gave me time to go deeper than a typical first conversation and to sync on how my work would connect to their direction.

Once the evaluation phase came together, I did a research presentation with the team remotely and then had a detailed discussion with the PI about my research and how it would land in the group. I also met with the team members as part of the evaluation, including a job talk and targeted questions that went

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