application, asked to complete a writing task, participated in a panel interview, and then a final round interview with director followed by a reference check. All in all took several months to complete the hiring process.

After submitting my initial application I heard back about a coding test. Completed the coding test, which was pretty straightforward. Some basic analysis of RCT data in Stata, questions about choosing standard errors, asking you to handle missing values and outliers, etc. All things covered in my grad level econometrics sequence and some RA work I did. Might be a pain if you haven't used Stata before though, overall maybe took 20 hours? Heard back soon after about an interview. It had some generic behavioral interview questions, e.g. ``talk about I time you had to overcome a failure" or something. Then some technical questions, I was posed a scenario where people received some kind of covid assistance through mobile money transfer, so only people with internet access got it, and they asked me how I would assess the effect of this program. I said RD design, then was asked how I'd set up the regression equation. Then some questions about a past project I'd worked on, e.g. why I chose the outcome measure that I did. Then a few weeks after got an automated rejection email.