NIH·Research Scientist

NIH Research Scientist interview experience

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Durham, NCPosted May 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview was scheduled as a full day meeting with several PIs, which ended up being exhausting and a bit stressful.

I had that high-coverage feeling of constantly switching contexts and pitching myself repeatedly.

Alongside the PI meetings, I delivered a job talk on my research that ran around 40 minutes, and it felt like a standard academic style discussion. I also spent time meeting postdocs in the lab to get a sense of how the group operated and what the environment actually felt like day to day. I didn’t end up with an offer, and the main memory was how mentally demanding the nonstop schedule was.

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