NIH·Research Scientist

NIH Research Scientist interview experience

Got offer

Medium

Positive

United StatesPosted Oct 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My day included multiple conversations with researchers in the lab, with several short discussions that lasted about 30 minutes each.

I also spoke with the lab chief and gave a longer one-hour presentation to the lab.

During and after the talk, people asked a lot of questions about the research I presented, which made it feel interactive rather than passive. The rest of the experience leaned on that back-and-forth, trying to understand both the details of my science and how I reasoned about it. I didn’t end up with an offer, but the questioning made the evaluation feel fairly direct.

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