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Updated Feb 12, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Graduate Student at Stanford University
Posted Feb 12, 2012
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4.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2010 (took a day)
i flew out to the university and met with a wide variety of faculty. the interesting thing about being a phd at stanford is they require a faculty to choose you from a pile of names. if the faculty don't wish to go pull your file and then offer you a spot, you don't get a spot.
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Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University
Posted Feb 10, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 (took a day)
made a presentation and talked to others in the lab all day. Advice: be interested and knowledgeable about the work being done.
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I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Presentation.
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Research Assistant at Stanford University
Posted Feb 2, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 (took 2 days)
Online application process; candidates ranked their top research project choices and wrote short essays about why they wanted to be a part of those projects. A few background checks on major and interest in the field. Professors then go through the applications and rank the ones they seem are most suited for the research. A computer does the final matchup that determines whether and who gets to work in which position.
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Graduate Research Assistant at Stanford University
Posted Jan 1, 2012
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 (took a day)
A phone interview about my career plans.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Financial Analyst at Stanford University
Posted Nov 20, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Palo Alto, CA (took a day)
Great HR department - especially good at follow-up. Asked basic questions like, Why do you want to work at SMC?
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Research Associate at Stanford University
Posted Nov 18, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2009 (took a day)
It was just a presentation.
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I was just offered an 80% salary
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The interview consisted of a Presentation.
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Analyst at Stanford University
Posted Nov 9, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Palo Alto, CA (took 6 weeks)
I enjoyed speaking to everyone in the group I was interviewing with.
There was the initial phone interview that was pretty easy going. And then a couple weeks later I was invited for an in-person interview, where I ended up meeting everyone I would be working with. To prepare for the interview I had to do a case analysis which seemed easy to comprehend.
I was invited back for a second in-person interview about two weeks after that to meet with those who are more senior, which I thought it went well. A week later they did a background check and called my references. They went through all that trouble of checking me, then offered the position to someone else. I felt led on by them.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University
Posted Oct 10, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2011 (took a day)
It is a phone interview. The PI first told me that he might be have a opening in couple of months so he is interviewing. He gave me updated info about his research, talked about how many people in his group, what activities (meetings etc) and collaborators are. The the PI asked me about why I want to join the lab, career goal, visa status, publications. It went well. The things is that they are not sure when the space will open. He told me once he has better idea he will arrange a visit. It's about 45min. Overall the PI was very nice, I really hope his current postdoc find a job and leave soon!
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Graduate Student at Stanford University
Posted Aug 25, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2009 in Palo Alto, CA (took a day)
-He asked me to tell him about myself
-Why do you like computers?
-I use computers every day, more specifically I use Google everyday whether it is the search engine, Google mail, and the Google App Engine
-Described Google App Engine/my projects
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-Why do you like computers?
-I use computers every day, more specifically I use Google everyday whether it is the search engine, Google mail, and the Google App Engine
-Described Google App Engine/my projects
-He asked me to tell him more about my projects and what aspects of it did I work on?
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Research Fellow at Stanford University
Posted Jul 27, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2009 in Stanford, CA (took a day)
It is kind of weird of Stanford's policy of recruiting new hires. Typically you can only get the Stanford offer by showing you have another offer at another institute. Stanford does not want to be the first to give you an offer, it always waits for other institute to give you the offer first, and then matches with a similar offer.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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