r/OperationsResearch

Hi I’m a fresh graduate and I applied as an Operations Research Analyst position at the known energy company in my city. I’m a graduate of industrial engineering and this is my first time to have this interview. I already got a phone screening interview last week and this upcoming week I’ll be having an initial interview with the company’s hr and 5 more employees.. I’m really nervous because I didn’t expect that’s common for an interview and what makes me more nervous is the excel exam too. Any tips what could be the possible excel exam that might show up there?? Please help me..

Hello guys I am currently pursuing mtech in the industrial engineering and management branch....

Pls suggest some skills which I learned in college. Those skills make me industry ready....

Also share some insight...

Hey everyone! wanted to see how the market was compensating for Operations Researchers or similar ,only if you'd be willing to share!

Was wondering how much you all were making, how many YoE do you have, what industry are you in, and where do you see yourself in your next role?

I'll start:

Currently making ~102k annually total comp

3.5 YoE

Energy

Not entirely sure, but thinking Energy, Tech, Healthcare or starting my own thing. Market is changing like crazy.

I honestly cannot figure out what the difference between OM and OR is, in research context. And since there's no OM sub, I hope you don't mind me asking this here.

So I am a final year undergraduate in IE and I have decided to do higher studies in OM and eventually become a researcher in this field. I am facing issues in narrowing down my interested research directions. There reason for this post is to get help from this community to point me towards the forefront of OM research.

1. What are the current frontiers of research in Operations Management that I should look into? Are there any specific papers I should look at? What's novel and will be relevant in next 5 years?

2. I have been reading POM, INFORMS journals and got interested in Supply chain resilience. I cannot figure out the research gaps to work on or what even the frontier is. What should I be looking into?

This may be an odd post but please be kind as I am not affiliated with a lab and in my country there's really no research culture. So every bit of help counts atp.

Thank you for your time and support.

PS: I don't have institutional access to those journals. Would it make sense to just email the authors?

I'm applying for phd in Operations management/research this cycle and just got my GRE scores back which is 170Q 155V 5.0AWA. I'm aware these programs care much more about the quant but I looked at the average admitted phd students gre scores in the FAQs section of top business schools (aggregated across all dept so not just operations) and the verbal section is 160+. Do you think I should retake the GRE to bump up my verbal scores? I want to dedicate my time to personal statements and research but if not hitting 160 is going to filter me out/jeopardize my chance I guess I'll have to retake it. Thank you so much!

I spoke with the chair of an industrial engineering department, who said that open-source solvers might not be appropriate for corporate use and that the company’s data could be leaked through these open-source solvers. I asked some AI models, and they said this wouldn’t happen unless we used them via the cloud, but I’d still like to get your opinion. In your opinion, do open-source solvers—such as Highs, CBC, and Ortools—create security vulnerabilities?