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> I think one way to do well in that interview, is to pretend you're the professor and they're a student, and you're working through course material. If that's
by Paul-Craft 2y ago
> I think one way to do well in that interview, is to pretend you're the professor and they're a student, and you're working through course material.
If that's what they want, they should give out the questions in advance, and have the candidate prepare a slide deck. No professor conducts class by having students show up and fire random questions at them all semester.
More explicitly, if that's what they want, they should say that.
- hansvm 2y ago> no professor ... That's one of the higher leverage activities for an instructor. Anyone can go read a book, watch a video, or do some practice problems, and lecturing at a bunch of students isn't a great way to convey information, either in absolute terms or compared to those alternatives. The instructor's job is to tell you which books to read, why the material matters, and contextualize the course against other things you care about. The particular road they tell you to travel depends on where you currently are, and a 2-way conversation is critical to getting good results.
- Paul-Craft 2y agoI know all that. But, have you perhaps been in an undergrad classroom recently? It's still predominantly lecture-based.