Research Assistant applicants have rated the interview process at Thermo Fisher Scientific with 2.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 60% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Research Assistant roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Thermo Fisher Scientific overall takes an average of 33 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Thermo Fisher Scientific as a Research Assistant according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
Group panel interview: 22%
Presentation: 22%
Phone interview: 22%
One on one interview: 11%
Skills test: 11%
IQ intelligence test: 11%
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They were very straight and to the point. They did not make me meet with multiple people that I would not be working with on a day to day basis. I appreciated that they did not make me sit through hours of interviews with people much higher up than me.
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Question 1
They asked me mostly about organizational skills and the ability to time manager.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Thermo Fisher Scientific (Manchester, England) in Oct 2025
Interview
The first interview was very simple. It was more of an informational discussion if anything to tell me more about the role and the training process as the advertisement was slightly misleading. Then just went through my cv to make sure everything was correct and salary expectations
The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Thermo Fisher Scientific (Las Vegas, NV) in Aug 2023
Interview
Took 1 month, since I applied and sent my CV, HR contacted me and scheduled the interview. HR was very polite, their process is organized. The interview was online. One of the lab managers was super polite, straight forward and the other didn’t even turn on the camera.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself; Do you make mistakes? What happened and what did you do to fix them?