m******u
发帖数: 277 | 1 总结一下面试被问到的一些问题。
General questions:
- Why are you interested in this position?
- Tell me something about yourself.
- Give me an example how you deal with challenging problems.
- Describe how you deal with multi tasks.
- Show us a writing example that you recently completed.
- What is your career goal in 5 years?
- How do you communicate with your collaborators?
- Have you ever worked on a project in a team? How did you do it?
Technical questions:
- How do you describe your SAS/R skills?
- Where did you learn SAS/R?
- What other programming languages did you use?
- Give me the information you need for a sample size calculation (for
continuous/binomial outcomes).
- Tell me the assumption of Cox regression.
(non-informative censoring and proportional hazards)
- How to interpret Odds ratio? For example, the outcome is heart attack and
the covariate is treatment.
- Give me the correlation structure you know and their differences.
- Tell me all the SAS procedures you know.
- Could you tell me your favorite course? And why?
- Tell me all the courses you learned.
- If you need to compare the weight between two groups of patients, what
kind of statistical test would you use? (parametric and nonparametric)
- What kind of method would you use to test the association between gender
and disease? (both categorical)
- What method would you use to predict height by weight?
- Which test would you use for comparing survival outcomes?
- What method to estimate the survival function of life-time data?
- Which procedure would you use for summary statistics? (for continuous or
categorical data)
- How do you use ODS option?
- Do you have experience with SQL?
- What kind of statistical plots do you know? And how to generate them?
- Which data format do you encounter with? And how do you import them into
SAS?
- How do you interpret a significant interaction? For example, the outcome
is blood pressue, and the covariates are gender and age.
- Which methods do you use to evaluate or test the model assumptions?
- If each patient has multiple records, how do you choose the first and the
last record for each patient in SAS?
Project-related questions:
- What is the population prevalence of OM?
- What are the significant risk factors for OM in your final model? And how
to interpret them?
- Why is it a matched case-control study?
- Why are you using Kappa statistics for this study?
(to compare the agreement between ear infection history and ear exam
results)
- Why did you choose Cox regression instead of log-rank test?
- How many babies had ear infection occurence at the end of the study?
- How do you define the time-to-event for this study?
- How many subjects are there in this study? What’s the ratio of case
versus control? And why?
- What software or method do you use in your meta-analysis?
- How do you calculate the mean and standard deviation for the pooled
analysis?
- Could you describe your plan B project?
- What’s the differences between the ward’s minimum variance method,
average linkage method and centroid linkage method?
- What is the most challenging aspect to work as a teaching assistant?
Questions to ask:
- Besides those technical qualifications, what personal qualities do you
most value? (below are the feedbacks I got from all my interviewers)
be patient,
well-organized,
a good listener,
hardworking,
reliable or responsible,
detail-oriented or careful,
never guess but ask,
a good team player,
able to communicate with nonstatisticians,
multi-tasking,
inter-personal skills,
pick-up skills quickly or quick learner,
getting along well with coworkers,
work independently as soon as possible;
- What is the typical career path for this position?
- How is the performance evaluated within your organization?
- How soon are you looking to fill this position?
- When will you be making a decision on this position? | t**c
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Thank you for sharing! | s******5
发帖数: 513 | 3 thanks for providing so much useful information. These questions are for PHD
level or master level?
【在 m******u 的大作中提到】
: 总结一下面试被问到的一些问题。
: General questions:
: - Why are you interested in this position?
: - Tell me something about yourself.
: - Give me an example how you deal with challenging problems.
: - Describe how you deal with multi tasks.
: - Show us a writing example that you recently completed.
: - What is your career goal in 5 years?
: - How do you communicate with your collaborators?
: - Have you ever worked on a project in a team? How did you do it?
| m******u
发帖数: 277 | 4 MS fresh graduate, entry level position :)
PHD
【在 s******5 的大作中提到】
: thanks for providing so much useful information. These questions are for PHD
: level or master level?
| d******k
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