Lawrence Berkeley Lab·Research Scientist

Lawrence Berkeley Lab Research Scientist interview experience

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Posted Jun 2011 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied online and ended up with an interview scheduled that started with a phone conversation.

That call focused on my research work during my PhD—what I’d actually done, what problems I’d tackled, and the direction I’d taken as the project evolved. I also spent time talking through the skills I had built along the way and how those could translate into the kind of work they were expecting from the role.

The process felt straightforward but a bit intense because the conversation stayed pretty tied to evidence from my research and my fit for the position. After the recruiter-style step, the interview path moved forward into an in-person 1:1 and included a presentation, which set a more

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