The American Mathematical Society Research Analyst interview experience

They asked me to be clear on my research interest and to know the PI’s area, and I had to lean on my familiarity with their publications. I also had to speak to the job scope—whether it leaned more toward administrative responsibilities or hands-on research work—because that distinction mattered in how they evaluated my match.

Once the interview discussion began, it centered less on generic reasoning and more on what I’d learned in research. Questions leaned into technical research methods, and I was expected to talk about things like retrosynthetic analysis and purification methods. In that