I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Princeton University (Princeton, NJ) in Nov 2018
Interview
2018 Interview Process: The interviews consisted of phone calls with the sponsoring professor about my background and what the project they were working on was. Followup phone calls with current/former post-docs and students in the professor's group again concerning my background. On-site interview consisted of programming on a blackboard and meeting with the current graduate students, post-docs and professor.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Over the phone, many questions about my current research and general research interests. My guess is they were evaluating my general ability to understand applied math research.
The blackboard interview consisted of a standard LeetCode kind of question with follow-up questions regarding the difference between threads and processes, as well as ways to accelerate the problem I solved on the blackboard.
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