1:1 Interviews with Faculty and lab members. Typically includes a research presentation to the entire group with 1:1 interviews as follow ups. Interviewers were mostly familiar with published work and asked questions about it regardless of whether it was included in the presentation or not.

To my dismay Harvard’s standards for vetting people have allowed them to miss the chance of hiring people that can be productive members of the team. The interviews went well and felt misled and discriminated against when I finally got to the reference checks. They required three, I provided five and my references confirmed with me afterwards. Harvard revoked my application because I couldn’t provide a reference from a place I got laid off from. Feeling awkward I went ahead reach out to my old colleagues at that company and got least three of the references. Harvard still denied it. No other company ask this and when you provide what they want, they can change their mind. It’s not professional at all.