El proceso duró 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Harvard University (Boston, MA) en sept 2009
Entrevista
Long lengthy and meaningless, everyone wanted to see you for one reason or the other. Probably the idea behind having a dozen people interview is more political than anything else. Between phone interviews, in person day long sessions spent 3 days.
Was very difficult to figure out who has real decision-making. If you are coming in from outside world, you will find culture very different and ‘non veritas’.
Preguntas de entrevista [2]
Pregunta 1
If you know your subject questions were not that difficult. The difficult part was to figure out what person is really asking and what he thinks is the right answer.
Some interviewers were interested in knowing how your outside experience can bring the change. Later if you get hired and look back you will see questions/probes were more towards figuring out how if you going to rock the boat and change the business as usual.
Had a phone screen with the recruiter, had to answer some clarifying questions about my technical abilities, then it would have been an in-person with the hiring manager. It was not very conversational, felt very robotic. For the most part I was asked to summarize each of my past jobs and things that could have been answered by actually looking at my resume/application. I didn’t get an opportunity to ask any questions which is strange as this is a very usual interview practice. I withdrew after the first phone screen as I was told upfront they would not be able to meet my salary range, which is market rate for my field. They said budgets are set and due to being a non-profit higher ed institution, there was no flexibility on salary. I really do understand that’s how things can go in any organization or company, but…they made it sound like they were some small school with a limited budget. Everyone knows the wealth that Harvard has. Trying to pull the “we’re in education and budgets are limited” at the school with the largest endowment in the world comes off as incredibly tone deaf and out of touch.
