The interview process involved one phone interview followed by an onsite interview.

I applied online and received an email to schedule a phone interview. The interviewer was very friendly, and the interview went pretty well. I then received an email for an in-house interview.

The in-house interview was a bit different from the phone one. I had two technical 2:1 interviews, and after that, I was told I was done for the day. So, I guess their process is that if you survive the technical interviews, only then do you get to see the hiring manager.

The first round of technical interviews went okay. I believed I made every effort to give the correct answer. I am not sure whether the interviewers were convinced or not. One of the interviewers kept asking questions, and the other was constantly looking at me. I am not sure what made them reject me: my answers to the technical questions or my answers to the behavioral questions.

The second round was a bit rough on me. One of the interviewers was speaking too fast. She was speaking so fast that it was really hard for me to understand what she was asking. It took me a while to understand the overall problem. I believe they were not convinced and found me too slow.

Your background doesn't appear to be in computer science, even though my undergraduate degree was in computer science and graduate school was in computational sciences. It was difficult for me to convince the interviewer that computational sciences is, in fact, the use of computer science resources in an interdisciplinary area, and that my role there is as a researcher in human-computer interaction.