Phone Screen with Recruiter Technical Phone screen with hiring manager Onsite with lab Researcher Onsite with two Bioinformatics Software Engineers Onsite with CIO Onsite with Director of Software Engineering Onsite with Associate Director of Software Engineering Onsite with HR staff member Overall maybe a 6 - 9 hour process. The Software engineering group is all new within the last half year so they are still booting up the team so to speak. Because of that the interviews are focused on heavily drilling into systems design and architecture for bioinformatics pipelines and Django web applications. They will also interrogate you deeply on experiences with past projects. Interview was actually kind of fun. They have some of the most promising technical work in biotech/pharma right now. I got an offer but turned it down because I don't want to relocate to the Bay Area during a pandemic and being remote is not an option short or long term for the CIO since the role is to support laboratory staff. The only redflag I found is that all members of the technical interview rounds where Men; I got the feeling they don't have any Women on the Software engineering team. But like I said almost everyone is new within the last half year so that could have changed by the time your reading this.

Initial call with recruiter, then technical phone screen. I was given a simple coding problem that I solved quickly. Other questions were general and few specific technical questions that now a days developers can refer to online documentation e.g. commands, language built-in functions A couple of days I received an email from the recruiter saying I was found falling short on Java language, the fact is interview was never taken for Java. The program that I even wrote was in a different language, not Java