Computational Biologist applicants have rated the interview process at Genentech with 3.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 68.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Computational Biologist roles take an average of 120 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Genentech overall takes an average of 33 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Genentech as a Computational Biologist according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 25%
One on one interview: 25%
Presentation: 13%
Skills test: 13%
Personality test: 13%
Group panel interview: 13%
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The interview process involved resume screening, a phone interview, technical assessment, panel interview, reference check, the interview was very hard it lasted for 30 minutes all technical questions difficult to answer
The first interview is just a 30 min talk with the hiring manager. Questions are mostly about my previous research experience. The hiring manager also introduced more the hiring lab and the potential projects that will be conducted.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Genentech (South San Francisco, CA)
Interview
Full day interview with a scientific talk on previous work followed by half hour interviews all day. Lots of hard questions about the research presented in the talk.
They also asked questions about many of my published papers and wanted to know about the specifics of the methods used. I had to defend them and explain why others were not used.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Extremely rigorous questioning on science presented.