MDRC·Research Analyst

MDRC Research Analyst interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Jul 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a recruiter reach-out, and then I moved into interviews with the team plus a separate HR conversation.

Before those final conversations, I was also asked to work through a take-home style case, which ended up being the most demanding part of the whole process for me. The rest felt more like a structured check of how I think and how I work with messy data.

A recurring theme was dataset scrutiny. I was asked to look at provided information and identify mistakes or “odd” details, and at different points that same attention-to-detail theme came up as a short skills assessment and as follow-up technical discussion. The team interviews also covered my interests and my experience—both the research

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