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Competency: -Why do you want to work at Syngenta/What do you know about Syngenta? -How do you deal with repetitive tasks? -Why this area and not others (e.g. structural biology)? -When you haven't been able to meet a deadline, how did you communicate this with your supervisor? -How do you juggle lots of tasks and various deadlines? -Are you someone who takes risks? -What would you do if /name a time when you had to make a decision without all the information available? Technical: They asked me to describe the process and tools used to go from designing a plasmid for expressing protein to purifying a protein. -Why might Syngenta need to purify and test proteins?
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Protein Scientist

Interviewed at Syngenta

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May 7, 2022

Competency: -Why do you want to work at Syngenta/What do you know about Syngenta? -How do you deal with repetitive tasks? -Why this area and not others (e.g. structural biology)? -When you haven't been able to meet a deadline, how did you communicate this with your supervisor? -How do you juggle lots of tasks and various deadlines? -Are you someone who takes risks? -What would you do if /name a time when you had to make a decision without all the information available? Technical: They asked me to describe the process and tools used to go from designing a plasmid for expressing protein to purifying a protein. -Why might Syngenta need to purify and test proteins?

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