Engineering Physicist interview with SLAC

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The discussion centers on preparing for a technical interview for an accelerator physicist position at SLAC. The candidate, with a few years of experience, seeks advice on expected interview questions. Key recommendations include reviewing the job posting in detail and familiarizing oneself with SLAC's current experiments and relevant publications from the past five years. This preparation is crucial as interview questions will likely focus on these areas.

PREREQUISITES
  • Understanding of accelerator physics principles
  • Familiarity with SLAC's current experiments
  • Knowledge of relevant scientific publications from the last five years
  • Experience with technical interview formats in physics
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  • Research SLAC's ongoing experiments and their methodologies
  • Review recent papers published by SLAC researchers
  • Practice answering technical questions related to accelerator physics
  • Explore common interview questions for physicists in research roles
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Accelerator physicists, job seekers in physics research, and anyone preparing for technical interviews in scientific fields.

Raffaello
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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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You're welcome to PF.
 
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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:
 
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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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