Internship applicants have rated the interview process at Cepheid with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 25% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Internship roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cepheid overall takes an average of 27 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cepheid as a Internship according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 67%
Phone interview: 33%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
Applied online, after two weeks got an email from the hr for scheduling a phone interview. The phone interview was just a walk through the resume. after a week got an onsite scheduled, again rescheduled by the interviewer. The onsite interview was bit tough.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cepheid (Sunnyvale, CA) in Jan 2024
Interview
The interview consisted a 30-minute Zoom call with the manager and a 30-minute Zoom call with two current engineers of the company. They mainly asked a lot of STAR-related questions and the types of projects you have worked on.
Hello everyone, this interview process is not too long and hard. All I remembered is this is a Good work place and they has a very nice company location . Everyone is nice
But the living cost around the company is very high.
It's mostly behavioral with multiple rounds. The first round is pretty easy, about you and your interests/ why you want to join the company. The second round is more hypothetical, asking about certain situations and how you would react.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you handle a situation where you couldn't ask your higher ups for help in that moment?