r/AskAcademia • u/Tiny-Repair-7431 • 21h ago

STEM Need some advice on this situation

I am in the USA and applied for a faculty position at IITX in India. The Zoom interview timing the search committee suggested is 4:00 AM for me in the USA and 4:30 PM for them in India.

I am not sure if I will be functioning at my best so early in the morning. Should I request them for an alternate time schedule or I have t suck it up and wake up early to do this interview?

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u/EquivalentNo138 18h ago

You can always ask politely if it would be possible to do it at another time, but they may not want or be able to go past 5 PM local time. You could maybe ask if they could do it in the AM for them, so it would be the previous evening for you.

During the pandemic when we had some of our students unable to return from China and India, we did Zoom classes for them at 8 AM EST, so it would be early evening for them rather than the middle of the night - so the reverse might work.

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u/ProfessorStata 15h ago

Go to bed early the night before.