Stanford University Research Analyst interview experience

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Stanford, CAPosted Aug 2015 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I didn’t really go through an interview at all.

I showed up to the lab and ended up talking with the PhD student who was already working there. We went over projects they were handling and discussed a summer project I could get involved in.

The decision felt informal and immediate—if I thought the work sounded cool, I could just join. I remember thinking the projects were interesting enough that I chose to work with them, without any formal vetting process.

I ended up working there rather than going through a traditional hire, and the whole experience highlighted how different lab-to-lab hiring could be—sometimes it was essentially an

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