I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Global Patent Solutions (Phoenix, AZ) in Oct 2015
Interview
I have a B.S. in Molecular Biology and a law degree. I was an attorney in Arizona at the time, but I wanted to move out of litigation and into the patent field.
I applied online, and received an email back within a week asking for a phone interview. I lived near their facility, but they still requested a phone interview first. I interviewed with a HR employee/director and the head of the biotech patent analysts. The interview was pretty traditional. There weren't any really odd questions. Once they determined that I might be a good fit, they sent me a patent search assignment. I was offered another job at a patent firm before I got a chance to complete it. I had no experience doing any patent searches before, but that didn't seem to bother them.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Global Patent Solutions
Interview
Easy interview. Started with an intro call and then provided a small test. overall an extremely easy process. Afterwards an interview was set up with the head of the department you were going to work with.
First round interview consisted of writing a report on patent searches for a sample problem. The report was analyzed and further questions on technical knowledge in respective fields was tested.
Phone interview with HR and hiring manager. Also was e-mailed a patent search proficiency assessment that took 4-8 hours. I did not have previous experience with patent search, but did have experience with academic literature search, so it wasn't completely foreign.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Are you familiar with patents? Are you willing to relocate or interested in telecommuting?
Patent Analyst applicants have rated the interview process at Global Patent Solutions with 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 71% positive. To compare, the company-average is 77.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Patent Analyst roles take an average of 22 days to get hired, when considering 7 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Global Patent Solutions overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Global Patent Solutions as a Patent Analyst according to 7 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 23%
Group panel interview: 18%
Phone interview: 18%
Personality test: 14%
Background check: 9%
Other: 9%
One on one interview: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
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