MIT Research Analyst interview experience

The format was straightforward, but the tone caught me off guard: I was asked about what my interests were and then matched to multiple professors. I expected a normal meet-and-greet, yet it felt like I was being treated like I was wasting their time just for showing up.

The conversations themselves were largely about my research history and what I wanted to work on. I didn’t get much in the way of behavioral probing; it was more like an overview of past research experience and the goals I had. Even though the sequence felt fairly simple, the overall difficulty came from the emotional