Progress in job interviews
Done with the 2nd interview at a research institute in my school. After talking briefly with the director last time, this time I talked to 3 researchers and the director for an hour, to find if I can work with them. I will start working in a Computer Scientist's team after a couple of weeks' voluntary period while they evaluate how I satisfy them. Since I've been expecting to "work in a project focusing on robotics as a software developer", so good so far.
Though I have experiences both in system integration and research, it was too much of honor to keep the top and 3 researchers in the room and talk with for an hour since I'm currently only undergraduate student. Is it normal in U.S.? I had interviews with more than 20 companies when I tried to change jobs, and the companies spent much manpower like this time were U.S. based ones or ventures as expected. I'm sure I'm expected to adapt quickly.
Aside from the job this time, problems in interview technique still remain. 1) couldn't tell fully what I wanted. I preferred implementation related tasks to research assistance tasks, since the workload is limited and I need to be efficient. I'm more used to implementing systems. But the project is still in the investigation phase, so I couldn't be selfish to start talking about my specific desire. 2) Couldn't opinion enough. When they asked me which type of graduate program I will join and I answered "systems engineering" or "systems design management", they wanted to know how I define "system". I have very specific version of definition for most of the jargon used in my job area, but this time I didn't get too accurate since I don't want to interrupt the cheerful conversation going on. I need to recognize that I won't have much chances to talk directly to several researchers at once...So I keep it in mind to more focus on selling my self, depending on the situation.
Though I have experiences both in system integration and research, it was too much of honor to keep the top and 3 researchers in the room and talk with for an hour since I'm currently only undergraduate student. Is it normal in U.S.? I had interviews with more than 20 companies when I tried to change jobs, and the companies spent much manpower like this time were U.S. based ones or ventures as expected. I'm sure I'm expected to adapt quickly.
Aside from the job this time, problems in interview technique still remain. 1) couldn't tell fully what I wanted. I preferred implementation related tasks to research assistance tasks, since the workload is limited and I need to be efficient. I'm more used to implementing systems. But the project is still in the investigation phase, so I couldn't be selfish to start talking about my specific desire. 2) Couldn't opinion enough. When they asked me which type of graduate program I will join and I answered "systems engineering" or "systems design management", they wanted to know how I define "system". I have very specific version of definition for most of the jargon used in my job area, but this time I didn't get too accurate since I don't want to interrupt the cheerful conversation going on. I need to recognize that I won't have much chances to talk directly to several researchers at once...So I keep it in mind to more focus on selling my self, depending on the situation.
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