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If I called your current supervisor right now, what might they say you need to work on or improve? How would your coworkers describe you? Why are you interested in this job? Tell me more about item X on your CV. How did you manage your time with all these competing priorities in your previous role?
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Scientific Recruiter

Interviewed at STEMCELL Technologies

2.6
Aug 17, 2023

If I called your current supervisor right now, what might they say you need to work on or improve? How would your coworkers describe you? Why are you interested in this job? Tell me more about item X on your CV. How did you manage your time with all these competing priorities in your previous role?

This depends on the seminar and scientific background of the candidate, but one question I received was the typical: Why Genentech? and Why move to industry instead of stay in academia? and What were my motivations for not pursuing a postdoc before applying to industry?
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Senior Scientific Researcher

Interviewed at Genentech

4
Oct 31, 2021

This depends on the seminar and scientific background of the candidate, but one question I received was the typical: Why Genentech? and Why move to industry instead of stay in academia? and What were my motivations for not pursuing a postdoc before applying to industry?

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