Surviving the Toughest Postdoc Interviews

[@lukejay5460]

During my REU I watched a postdoc interview. The PI would ask a question mute himself and put his hood on. Wild experience

[@boredscientist5756]

😂😂😂😂 He probably thought he was the cool boy in the room

[@diodio520]

I love how you humanise those academic creeps - sitting there catching warm, fuzzy feelings down there. 😆

[@imthinkingthoughts]

Hey Andy -great stuff as always. Please review the new GPT-o1!!!

[@monsieurene3366]

with only 5 runs per day?

[@imthinkingthoughts]

@@monsieurene3366 50 per week. It’s currently the most advanced multimodal LLM system in the world, limited use is to be expected due to high costs

[@liluzibert3559]

I got asked a really tricky one earlier this year, it was something along the lines of: "Youre a promising candidate for this position, but that goes both ways- you'd be joining us at a top institution and university, so why should we wait (4 months) until you are available to start?" I really didnt know how to answer it without coming across as too overconfident...

[@monsieurene3366]

come across as too overconfident. :D

[@anneshleah3626]

I got tag teamed by the two PIs, they played good cop/bad cop with me. The guy was nice and wanted to know details about my previous work, while the woman jumped in aggressively every 5 minutes or so with the basic WHY DO YOU WANT TO JOIN THIS LAB. WHAT ARE YOUR WEAKNESSES. WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN 10 YEARS. I needed a double shot of rum after but I got the job :D

[@takiyaazrin7562]

Great video!

[@os2171]

Getting one in 3 hours!

[@juliakimondo4382]

Enthusiastic...eeew, Happy, excited not words I associate with my PhD. 😅 I will need to try hard.

[@jiiejfioejfa]

Thank you for ur vids 🙂

[@AlgoNudger]

Thanks. 😊

[@aerospacedoctor]

Thanks.

[@shermsl]

Thanks Andy for posting this video. Such an apt time for me since I am finishing my PhD soon. I do have a question, do you think it is a turn off for the potential employer if one wants to potentially consider pregnancy during the post-doc period?

[@DrAndyStapleton]

Don't mention it - it is none of their business! Best of luck with your family planning - how exciting for you.

[@shermsl]

@@DrAndyStapleton Thanks Andy! yea, I have been watching your post doc videos, I am feeling rather stress, about the post-phd situation.

[@intercomposed1308]

Andy, any experience doping ZnO with Al for transparent electrodes? Seems the conductivity of ZnO is a little too high for some high speed applications. half joking

[@othmanaljbory3649]

🎉🎉🎉 good good good ❤❤