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      Padawan Interview

      Apr 11, 2018
      Anonymous employee
      Boston, MA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Ginkgo BioWorks (Boston, MA) in Apr 2017

      Interview

      I applied on Ginkgo's website and didn't hear back for over a month. I figured it had gone into the application abyss, but I got an email one day from the head of the team asking to set up an initial interview (4 hours onsite). After that, I came back for a second round which was a full day of one-on-one meetings with other team members, HR, and even upper management. It was not too technical - most questions revolved around explaining in depth what was on my resume and "culture fit". Lunch was with two of the more entry-level people on the team, and was more casual but still seemed like an interview.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      What are you main responsibilities in your current internship?
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      Question 2

      Tell us more about your computer science, software, and statistics background.
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      Question 3

      What are some examples of when you had to work around a problem in a team setting?
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      Ginkgo BioWorks interviews FAQs

      • Padawan applicants have rated the interview process at Ginkgo BioWorks with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Padawan roles take an average of 60 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Ginkgo BioWorks overall takes an average of 40 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at Ginkgo BioWorks as a Padawan according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Group panel interview:  33%

        Drug test:  33%

        One on one interview:  33%

      • Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -

        1. Test Engineer(10) ;
        2. Director(9) ;
        3. Engineer(7) ;
        4. Organism Engineer(7) ;
        5. Software Engineer(6) ;
        6. Associate Director(5) ;
        7. Medical Technologist(5) ;
        8. Scientist(5) ;
        9. Senior Engineer(5) ;
        10. Automation Engineer(4) ;
        11. Operations Engineer(4) ;
        12. Fermentation Engineer(3) ;
        13. Operations(3) ;
        14. Organism Engineer III(3) ;
        15. Program Coordinator(3) .


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