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Updated Jan 29, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Aug 2011 (took 3 months)

Applied online, received email from hiring manager and scheduled for a phone interview. Was invited for onsite interview a couple weeks later. Onsite consisted of a presentation, about 10 1:1 interviews with people in the department, lunch and dinner. All very smart people, interesting conversations.

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What quality do you have that will make us choose you among the finalists?

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation and a Background Check.

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Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jan 2010 in South San Francisco, CA (took a day)

Great group of people at Genentech. Had interview. Consisted of meeting with a number of different departmental scientists who were all very smart. Seemed to me they had a specific person in mind from the beginning.

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Why do you want to be here?

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The interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation, a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.

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Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Sep 2009 (took 2 days)

applied online + employee referral. Got phone interview in a few weeks. Interview was casual and not very detail revealing- very general information and not really specific about project to be involved in. Also asked about non-project related experience. Perceptions : leader was not in group of his/her expertise and was either reluctant to specify or not sure of project to be conducted, however, this also indicates alot of freedom and flexibility in the job.