The American Mathematical Society·Research Scientist

The American Mathematical Society Research Scientist interview experience

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SingaporePosted Nov 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first contact followed an academic-style pattern: the professor or PI reached out and requested a meeting, and the idea was that my experience would speak for itself in deciding whether I would be brought forward.

The interview itself was described as fairly light at the start, the kind of discussion that could take around 30 minutes on the phone, with the expectation that the decision-maker already had a sense of how things would land.

But what really defined the experience for me was how slow the overall hiring paperwork turned out to be. Even after the decision discussion, HR delays stretched the timeline noticeably. One process took about four months end to end, and another involved waiting more than six months for an offer letter, so the uncertainty wasn’t about the interview questions—it was

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