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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at PPD (Madison, WI) in Aug 2013
Interview
overall was good, very professional, calm interviewers, booked hotel, paid transport, very warm HR personel, responded to questions promptly, respected candidate,
first I did a 30 min presentation on my research, too many people attended, some asked questions, once presentation was over a lot of folks left the room.
4 interviewers remained.
One asked technical questions for like 30 min.
the other 3 asked quiz type questions for 30 min each.
took a break in between to use bathroom.
Interviewers were respcful and considerate
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at PPD
Interview
First there will be an HR interview. Then there will be a 30 minute phone interview with the group leader. The final step is a 3-hour long structured interview. Which mostly focuses on behavioral questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a situation when you had to work under a lot of stress. What was the outcome?
How do you deal with conflict?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at PPD (Madison, WI) in Feb 2022
Interview
Started out with phone screen by the recruiter and then another phone interview with a group leader. This was followed by the final interview with 3 other group leaders . Received email a few hours later letting me know I would be getting a job offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Lots of behavior questions. Didn't get any technical questions although one interviewer did get into depth about purpose of experiments, future directions of project, why I chose to do certain experiments the way I did.
Began with a HR phone screen and then moved to a video interview stage. Because of COVID, this was the final stage. There was no on-site visit because of this.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What was a mistake you made and how did you learn from ti?
