Initial email, followed by 1hr in-person skills assessment, followed by one 1hr in-person interview with one of three PIs, two 30min back-to-back in person interviews with the project manager and a second PI, and then another interview about a week later over the phone with the third PI. This whole process took about 5 weeks. Then I received an email asking for references, two weeks later, references had been checked as two of them gave me a heads up. Everything was going great! And then three weeks went by and I was contacted by a different person who asked me for references again. I was confused, but then found out the person that had been processing my files had resigned their position. I gave them my list of references again, and told my references what had happened. About 10 days later I am requested to provide the contact information to my current direct supervisor. I am hesitant for obvious reasons: I don't want to be taken off of current projects without even a firm offer (or any kind of offer for that matter), and provide additional references. After a week, someone else contacts me essentially demanding the contact information for my current direct supervisor before they move forward. I finally cave in, talk to my supervisor and let her know that she may be called - now she knows that I am looking at other jobs. Well, the best part is that weeks go by and they never call her, ever. And they also never call me back. This whole process started in August, 2015. By January, 2016, I called them and they said they were still interviewing. I'm sorry, after all of those interviews, and me traveling 2 hours to get to them on a work day, and all the time I took of my current job, they did not even have the decency to let me know whether or not I had gotten the job? I find that unacceptable. Granted, this may be isolated to one department or a single sector of a department, but it was a pretty bad indicator of the quality of life experiences by those working there, I assume. It would have been nice to at least get a notification. All the PIs were wonderful, and I would love to work with them. The project was amazing and something I truly believe in. But the individual that took over the last portion of my interviewing process did not appear to even have the basic tenets of professional behavior or common decency. Highly disappointed.

I had to pass through several rounds. First I was contacted by one of MSK recruiters and she helped set up my first round of interviews. After that had to interview with another manager, program director and 2 doctors. It was a vigorous process. But overall it went well. Each interview lasted for approximately 30 min and it was really in depth and you got to know who you were talking to.