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Job Search Year/Season: 2023 (July-September)
Highest current education level: PhD
Job Source: Referral - Technical Phone Interview
Interview Experience: âšī¸ Negative
Interview Difficulty: đŖ Hard
Interview Result: Other
Seeing that almost all the posts on the forum were about CS or ML interviews, I had originally planned to look for interview experiences related to optical design before my own interview, but I came up empty-handed. Although I feel like I messed up this interview, I still want to share my experience briefly, in case there are other optics enthusiasts like me.
Meta interviews consisted of two parts. The first interviewer was Chinese-speaking and very nice. He started by asking me to introduce my research and asked if I could use one or two slides to explain it. I was terrified because in previous interviews, the recruiter would always mention presentation requirements in advance via email. However, the interviewer later said that I could just open a blank PowerPoint slide and write or draw on
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