I submitted the application through Duke website. I was required to submit, undergrad transcripts, Statement of purpose, and 3 Letter of Recommendations. After few days, I was asked for a suitable time for skype interview, which was scheduled for about 1 hour.
Question:
1. Tell me about your experience during your internship.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Tell me about your experience during your internship.
2. Why do you want to do a PhD?
3. Why the related field?
There was only one informal and in-person meeting, which was not really an interview. I was asked whether I was interested in becoming a Research Assistant given the details of the project.
It is good. The interviewers are from University so that they are very nice and provide insightful guidance. The questions are very academic, both creative open questions and questions about the basic term explanations.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What do you think is a good way to design a metric to evaluate the performance of the Summarization LLM?
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Duke University (Durham, NC)
Interview
The interview process was pretty easy. It seemed like more of a backwards interview, where they were trying to convince you to come to duke more-so than figuring out whether or not you should be there. This was an interview in the ECE department, so I'm not sure if every other department works the same way.
