Stanford University Research Analyst interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Palo Alto, CAPosted Jun 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I was contacted directly by the professor I’d be working for, and I met her in her office at the scheduled time.

The interview was chaotic in a way I didn’t expect—topics bounced around, and I’d be interrupted mid-thought. Sometimes she’d ask me to finish a sentence later, and the pacing wasn’t smooth.

A few of the questions were very specific but only tangentially connected to the actual role. One example that stuck with me was that she asked for the name of my introductory statistics professor from years prior, which felt oddly indirect compared to what I thought the conversation would focus on.

Even though it was difficult and hard to follow as a coherent “story,” it also made the interview feel

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