I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at NIH (Bethesda, MD) in Mar 2016
Interview
I applied online in December 2015 and was contacted in March 2016. I had a panel interview with 5 Managers/HR Specialist. There was a mixture of behavioral and situational questions. 1 week after the interview, I was made an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How are you with managing multiple tasks? Tell me a time when you had to work with a difficult manager or staff member, how did you handle that situation?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at NIH (Indianapolis, IN) in May 2015
Interview
It was non standard to say the least, the person in charge of me when I was eventually hired called me on the phone and simply asked if I had worked with computers before and then told me he would see if he could find someone who needed an intern.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at NIH (Bethesda, MD) in Mar 2015
Interview
I was interviewed by two people who worked in the department I was applying for (Computer Science). They were generally pretty friendly and the interview was not too difficult. They asked me to describe some of my classes and some projects I had worked on. They also asked me to walk through my problem solving process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you solve a problem where you have to search for common words in a long document in order to extract a brief summary?