Penn State interview questions
Updated Jun 1, 2026Difficulty
Easy
Experience
Very positive
How others got an interview
- 15%Campus RecruitingCampus Recruiting
- 12%In PersonIn Person
- 10%Employee ReferralEmployee Referral
- 1%OtherOther
- 0%RecruiterRecruiter
- 0%Staffing AgencyStaffing Agency
Interview search
466 interviews
Penn State interviews FAQs
- Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Penn State as 75.2% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2.46 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Professor and Software Developer rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Computer Lab Consultant and Pool Manager roles were rated as the easiest.
- The hiring process at Penn State takes an average of 33 days when considering 458 user submitted interviews across all job titles. To compare, the average duration of hiring at similar companies like BlackRock, Inc. is 14 days, Fabricated Software, Inc. is 2 days, and Apple Inc. is 21 days. Candidates applying for Computer Lab Consultant had the quickest hiring process (on average 1 day), whereas Professor roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 300 days).
- Common stages of the interview process at Penn State according to 458 Glassdoor interviews include:
Group panel interview: 20%
One on one interview: 19%
Phone interview: 16%
Background check: 13%
Presentation: 10%
Skills test: 9%
Drug test: 7%
Personality test: 2%
Other: 2%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
- Graduate Research Assistant(389) ;
- Research Assistant(322) ;
- Teaching Assistant(95) ;
- Graduate Student(74) ;
- Graduate Teaching Assistant(70) ;
- Graduate Assistant(68) ;
- Intern(53) ;
- Postdoctoral Scholar(47) ;
- Assistant Professor(46) ;
- Student Worker(44) ;
- Undergraduate Research Assistant(44) ;
- Postdoctoral Fellow(41) ;
- PhD Student(39) ;
- Learning Assistant(38) ;
- Postdoctoral Researcher(35) .
