Timeline for Interview by fellow PhD students, not the professor himself
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| Jun 21, 2021 at 0:35 | comment | added | user104446 | Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. | |
| Jun 18, 2021 at 12:49 | comment | added | Lauren | No, I did not. I didn't really have time for that. It is only around 60 minutes interview and too much to discuss. Everything seems oke.... I hope. | |
| Jun 13, 2021 at 0:09 | comment | added | user104446 | Q: Did you ask the Prof why he had his PhDs "interview" you ? I ask seeing as you are so curious about this. I sure hope you didn't let him charm his way off the hook on this . . . | |
| Jun 12, 2021 at 17:55 | comment | added | Lauren | Guys, actually I already got the interview with the prof on that very same day. I think he just wanted to let me talk to the Ph.D. student first then take it from that. Good that I talked to the professor. It was more like a chat, than an interview, but I'm still worried a bit for my last interview on Monday :)) | |
| Jun 11, 2021 at 15:18 | comment | added | user104446 | Frost asked Nixon about the legality of the president's actions. In the context of American national security, Nixon replied: "Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal." I am getting a similar sense of omnipotence of professors when I read some of the reactions here. Join that group and 6 months down the road you'll be supervised - savagely - by some similarly abused postdoc . . | |
| Jun 11, 2021 at 15:02 | comment | added | Chris H | @Elodin's point could still be true if the rival candidate was interviewed a few minutes before the OP - perhaps the prof was so impressed that conversation overran. But I don't actually believe that. Whenever I've been involved in postgrad (and postdoc) recruitment, from both sides, interviews or similar but less formal meeting conducted by the prospective peers have been an important part of the process. The only thing I see as a little odd is two separate interviews by existing students before anything with the prof. | |
| Jun 10, 2021 at 15:14 | comment | added | Dan Romik | @Elodin I suppose so, but in that case they should have (and most probably would have) cancelled the interview. This explanation, while theoretically possible, does not sound likely enough for OP to spend any time worrying about. | |
| Jun 10, 2021 at 14:37 | comment | added | Elodin | That's not necessarily true. They could've interviewed someone else before OP and decided to hire the first person, hence putting less effort into interviewing OP. | |
| Jun 9, 2021 at 20:12 | comment | added | Frank Hopkins | @Martin-ReinstateMonica I've at least had interviews (PhD, Postdoc level) where I spent only a presentation I gave with the prof and then had 1-1 talks only with their PhDs and sometimes Postdocs. Some profs trust the recommendation of their colleagues regarding factual knowledge/technical qualification (and perhaps what they can get from papers and presentations) and then mainly want you to be a good collaborator for their other PhD students. | |
| Jun 9, 2021 at 18:12 | comment | added | Poseidaan | OP states "I can't shake the feeling that they use these interviews as practice on their sides.". This would be a possible (unlikely?) explanation for being invited to an interview despite the decision to reject already having been made. | |
| Jun 9, 2021 at 15:01 | history | answered | Dan Romik | CC BY-SA 4.0 |