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University College London Research Analyst interview experience

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United KingdomPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

What stood out to me was how technical the questioning got and how scenario-style questions kept appearing alongside the more direct prompts.

I was asked lots of “what would you do in this situation” type questions, and it was clear they cared about precision—especially when the topics drifted into coding and data-related thinking. The conversation wasn’t hostile, though; the people I spoke to stayed nice and the tone made it easier to keep reasoning out loud.

When I got to the scenarios, I had to show not just that I could describe methods, but that I understood what they were trying to test. In particular, they treated coding knowledge as something you couldn’t fake—if it came up, they expected a clear understanding of what the

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