I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Nektar Therapeutics (Milwaukee, WI) in Feb 2014
Interview
Close to industry standard. Required presentation only included senior staff. Co-workers only met over lunch. Interview process took about 5 hours and most had 2 interviewers.
Travel and hotel were arranged and pre-paid, meals and incidental expenses were not.
Pre-interview responses from HR were slow, even for working through a recruiter.