I applied online. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at Princeton University (Princeton, NJ) in Jan 2021
Interview
The interview process was long: about 4-5 months from initial application to the interviews to finding out the result.
4 Stages of interviews with multiple zooms - the last of the stages involved 2 day-long zoom marathon sessions that took the place of what used to be on-campus visits.
While helpful, answering the same question in 8 different settings wasn't necessarily the best use of time.
Some of the interviews were exciting, others a bit more lackluster. I had one faculty member ask me "Oh, I see you don't do a lot of research lately, can you tell us why not..." and before I could even answer she continued "oh, you must not think research is important - can you tell us why you think research is not important?" I'm sure you can see how problematic that example was on multiple levels.
Anyways, overall a neutral experience with peaks and valleys creating that ranking.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What made you decide to apply for this Associate Director role?
I applied online. The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at Princeton University
Interview
Overall a normal interview process with a series of interviews with different members across the team. Good experience and met a lot of great people. Only downfall was that I never heard back after the interview.
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Phone interview and then a zoom interview. Phone screening was with HR and then zoom was with the hiring manager. It wasn’t too bad, but they did not communicate very much between interviews.
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Princeton University (Princeton, NJ) in Nov 2021
Interview
First round is HR interview for setting salary expectations and clarification on the role. Second round is with hiring manager and often different groups of colleagues and students. They ask resume based questions as well as behavioral questions related to the position description.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell us about your experience? Why are you interested in this role? What are the challenges and opportunities you see in this position? What questions do you have for us?