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An accelerator physicist preparing for a technical interview is seeking advice on potential questions to expect. The discussion emphasizes the importance of reviewing the job posting in detail and suggests familiarizing oneself with current experiments at SLAC and relevant published papers from the past five years. This preparation is crucial as interview questions may focus on these experiments and the associated physics and methods. The physicist also shares that they have not yet been contacted for the interview and are exploring other opportunities, including an interview with Argonne. The conversation highlights the need for thorough preparation and staying informed about recent developments in the field.
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Hello. I am an accelerator physicist with a couple of years of experience. I've already had an interview session with the recruiter. Then, they sent me an email saying that I will have a technical interview with the hiring manager. I've never had physics interviews before because my research center hired me directly from the university.
Can you please suggest what kind of questions I need to expect?
Thank you in advance.
 
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Look at the job posting, line by line. If someone were to ask you a technical question about any one of those, what would you say?
 
Raffaello said:
Hello. I am an accelerator physicist with a couple of years of experience. I've already had an interview session with the recruiter. Then, they sent me an email saying that I will have a technical interview with the hiring manager. I've never had physics interviews before because my research center hired me directly from the university.
Can you please suggest what kind of questions I need to expect?
Thank you in advance.
I'm of limited help here (I'm more helpful with EE interview questions), but do you know all of the experiments currently being run at SLAC? Have you read all of the papers published for their experiments for the past 5 years or so? I would start there, since the questions they ask will likely either be related to those experiments, or the technical questions they ask will be about the physics and experimental methods involved in those experiments.

https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/research

Good luck, and let us know how it goes. :smile:
 
Raffaello said:
I will have a technical interview with the hiring manager
Did you have the interview yet? How did it go? :smile:
 
berkeman said:
Did you have the interview yet? How did it go? :smile:
Hello, They didn't even reach to me... Don't know what's the problem.
I have a different interview with Argonne now, hope this one will work for me.

P.S. sorry for the late response. I'm new to the forum format overall. Getting used to it
 
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