Envié una solicitud electrónica. El proceso duró 1 día. Acudí a una entrevista en Empa (St. Gall, St. Gall) en mar 2014
Entrevista
I had to give a presentation about my doctoral thesis and about one topic that was given to me in the invitation mail. Then, I was asked many typical HR questions about motivation, future plans etc. At the end, I got questions from department leader and group leader. Other group leaders were also present during the interview.
Envié una solicitud electrónica. Acudí a una entrevista en Empa (Dübendorf, Zürich) en dic 2020
Entrevista
I applied online, and got invitation for interview the next day. The interviewed took place one week later, and then I got offer five days after the interview. The interview was with head of the laboratory and PI.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Many behavioral questions asked by the head, and many detailed scientific questions related to the project.
Envié una solicitud electrónica. Acudí a una entrevista en Empa en dic 2020
Entrevista
I applied online, received interview invitation the next day, had interview via Zoom one week later with PI and laboratory head, and got offer five days later. The interview process was about 1 h, consisted of behavioral questions from the head, and technical questions from PI related to the project.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
1. Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
2. What is your greatest achievement?
3. How would your best friend describe you?
4. Literature review, conducting experiments, and writing papers and reports, what do you like the most and least?
5. When you think about your PhD, what do you think you should have improved and done better?
Also, many technical questions (more like quizzes) related to the project. This part is hard to prepare in advance.
Solicité el puesto en persona. El proceso duró 3 meses. Acudí a una entrevista en Empa
Entrevista
An EMPA group leader contacted me for a job interview. After a phone-interview, they invited me for a second interview. In this second interview, I was told to give two different lectures. One with my last year's research and a second with ideas on their topics. This last lecture did not sound very fair to me, because they do not know how my resources are, to check bibliography and chemistry software. Of course I did it and everything went very well. However, after being not selected, I noticed that they decided not to open this position and to hire a PhD student instead. In this regard, I feel that all candidates for the postdoctoral position were used to bring ideas on the topic, which they could afterwards use to open a topic for a PhD student. I will, of course, follow regularly the publications and patents of the group to report any possible malpractice.
I recommend the people to be aware and never accept to bring ideas on a topic, only during the interview, but not giving lectures in this regard.
