I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bio-Rad Laboratories in Jun 2020
Interview
One week before the interview, I received a quick phone call from HR manager for the interview notice. I met 2 hiring managers on site and was asked to do a 10-min presentation. A couple of technical questions were asked, plus some standard interview questions. The interview lasted about 1 hour and 15 minutes, which were conducted in an easy atmosphere. I was told I expected to hear back after 1 week or so, but I have not heard any thing back after 2 weeks, nor my follow-up email to the hiring manager and HR manager was responded.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
what's your biggest strength ? what do you know about the role? what could be the problem if you see multiple bands on a western blot ?
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Bio-Rad Laboratories (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
The interviewer from the company sent me an e-mail the same morning (8:00 am) , asking if he could contact me by phone. I replied the mail, answering that I was available for a call from 1pm to 6:00pm, and I asked him to tell me in advance if he was going to call me.
He did not reply, so I was not sure if he was going to contact me or not. At 3:30 pm I received his call. And he was not from HR, but a manager. The first thing he asked disoriented me a bit:"How is that your resume arrived to me?" And I just replied: "well, probably because I applied for the position..." (which for me was kind of obvious...). At that point I did not understand the question. Maybe I should have pass a previous interview with HR? Then he said me that he did not have much time, and that we were gonna do a fast interview. And that made me more nervous. First, he called me without giving me the time to prepare the interview a little bit, and then he told me that he was in a hurry... Nevertheless, I agreed. Maybe I should have told him to call me other day. The position announced a 40 % travel time, that during the interview came up to 65%. And then, he started to ask specific technical questions, that if you do not prepare, it is sure you are not going to answer properly. It was not that I did not know the techniques, it was a lack of preparation.
By the end, I knew already that the position was not for me; what I did not understand was why he called me in the first place with the hurry... probably they had too many candidates
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
very specific technical questions with examples, like:
what are your controls in a qPCR experiment? what is the threshold of your genes? Which parameters will you choose to design Taq Man probes? Tell me about your experience with melting curves. Tell me about your experience with digital PCR.
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