University of Washington·Research Scientist

University of Washington Research Scientist interview experience

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Seattle, WAPosted Jun 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview started with meeting a group of scientists, and most of the questions revolved around my work experience and skills.

They also spent time getting into ongoing and future projects, which helped clarify what kinds of problems the lab was already tackling and what they were aiming to tackle next. The whole thing lasted about two hours, and it felt like a conversation with multiple perspectives rather than a single interviewer.

What stood out to me was that they kept circling back to how I had done things in the past—what I’d actually worked on and what I could bring to the team—while tying it to the direction of their current and upcoming research. It wasn’t just abstract discussion; it mapped my background

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