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Most of the questions were very standard: why Mofo, why Law, how do you deal with difficult people, how would you build a team, explain your PhD thesis: most folks were very collegial and professional. I did get questions from the partners about a) how long my PhD took (and was that "normal", b) what I had included or not on my cover letter (with the undertone I had purposely left something out: 1 page limited space) I was asked about previous jobs (start-ups), Be prepared to defend your CV history. There was concern I would not be able to transition from a scientist to a patent agent (please note PhDs were required for this application).
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Scientific Analyst

Interviewed at Morrison Foerster

3.7
Oct 19, 2021

Most of the questions were very standard: why Mofo, why Law, how do you deal with difficult people, how would you build a team, explain your PhD thesis: most folks were very collegial and professional. I did get questions from the partners about a) how long my PhD took (and was that "normal", b) what I had included or not on my cover letter (with the undertone I had purposely left something out: 1 page limited space) I was asked about previous jobs (start-ups), Be prepared to defend your CV history. There was concern I would not be able to transition from a scientist to a patent agent (please note PhDs were required for this application).

There were general questions about research projects that I had done as well as technical questions about developing a program for customers and how one might test programs. Also some questions about the Met Office main customers and areas.
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Foundation Scientific Software Engineer

Interviewed at Met Office

3.7
Dec 11, 2016

There were general questions about research projects that I had done as well as technical questions about developing a program for customers and how one might test programs. Also some questions about the Met Office main customers and areas.

Given two groups of treated and untreated animals, how would you decide which controls to include and what types of questions would you need to ask the individuals designing the experiment? (no details or hypothesis mentioned)
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Scientific Liaison

Interviewed at Adaptive Biotechnologies

3.3
Dec 31, 2019

Given two groups of treated and untreated animals, how would you decide which controls to include and what types of questions would you need to ask the individuals designing the experiment? (no details or hypothesis mentioned)

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