Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Metropolitan Planning Council as 100% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Research Assistant and rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Research Assistant and roles were rated as the easiest.
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Great interviewers but too many rounds. What the initial interviewer said would be a 2-4 week process was closer to 2-3 months. Asked standard questions re: personal interest in MPC, skills that you'd bring to the org, etc. Also asked about personal policy passions that could be leveraged.
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Question 1
What do you know about the organization, what technical skills do you bring to the organization, what's one policy topic you'd write about.
I spoke on the phone with the woman who would be my supervisor. It was about an hour and she asked me about my experience with the project I would be working on and some things about my resume. She also asked me practical questions about start date, etc.
Applied online through the MPC website and received an email to set up an interview and the interview happened virtually.
One round of interview, mostly behavioural questions and past work and relevant experiences