Undergraduate Researcher applicants have rated the interview process at MIT with 2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 74.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Undergraduate Researcher roles take an average of 3 days to get hired, when considering 8 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at MIT overall takes an average of 31 days.
Common stages of the interview process at MIT as a Undergraduate Researcher according to 8 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 63%
IQ intelligence test: 13%
Presentation: 13%
Skills test: 13%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at MIT (Cambridge, MA) in Apr 2012
Interview
Earlier in the Spring, I emailed a bunch of labs in the Media Lab for a UROP for the summer. I received very few responses, one of which was from the lab I worked in, which told me they didn't have any open positions, but they would email me if anything came up. The last day before the UROP application deadline, I emailed them again, and they had an open position. I went in that day, and they gave me the job after a few talks with the professor and the grad student I would be working with. So I got the position.
I reached out and had a short discussion with UROP supervisors, and it was a fairly smooth process. It was helpful that I luckily reached out to a very nice mentor who was accepting and encouraging.
Very casual for undergraduate positions, mostly conversation about past experiences, relevant skills, and a couple of technical questions to demonstrate your knowledge of the relevant field of research to which you're applying.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are the benefits of one hot encoded vectors vs embeddings for training of a ML model
I applied through other source. I interviewed at MIT (Boston, MA) in Jan 2020
Interview
The interview process is kind of informal, with no real channels to get to cool research. You have to know or reach out to some professors in order to really get going.