Stanford University Research Scientist interview experience

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SpainPosted Sep 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My experience started with an initial conversation with a lab coordinator, which was friendly and helped set expectations.

Then the process pivoted quickly to a take-home coding test that I remember as long and unusually challenging—roughly eight hours of work and a problem that felt effectively unsolvable, which was honestly demoralizing to sit with.

After I submitted the work, I went into a secondary interview with the lab coordinator who followed up on details and questioned my approach. That was still on the same track of assessing how I think through difficult constraints, but it was a different energy than the earlier screening.

The final step was an interview with the PI in an extremely aggressive style.

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