I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Invitae (San Francisco, CA) in Aug 2021
Interview
First recruiter round, followed by hiring Manger, then take home assignment and a final panel interview. Overall, well coordinated process! Meet with many people in the team and between teams. Should prepare for all possible questions. Job description would be vague, but prepare for more specific questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
About Probability distributions, workflow engines, hyb-capture knowledge!
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Invitae in Aug 2021
Interview
One hiring manager's phone screening with notes shared to multiple hiring teams; take home technical (coding); virtually on-site with no presentation and 6 rounds with interviewers from different hiring teams based on which teams are interested.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The role is engineer but only one round of live coding (pseudo code), two rounds of statistics, one round of lab technician, and nothing about other technical details like frameworks or APIs. The role should be bioinformatics scientist rather than engineer based on interviewers background/questions
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Invitae in May 2021
Interview
The interview was long (many phases, and many hours of interview with many people) and very thorough. The recruiter who worked with me through the process was awesome, she was very good at helping me relax, she was available, easy to reach, and quick to answer. She was knowledgeable and efficient. She seemed to really care. I also really appreciated that she managed to get an answer for me before the weekend when I was waiting to hear back after my last interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can you walk me through an algorithm you wrote and are proud of.
Bioinformatics Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Invitae with 3.3 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 53.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Bioinformatics Engineer roles take an average of 23 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Invitae overall takes an average of 33 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Invitae as a Bioinformatics Engineer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Presentation: 20%
Phone interview: 20%
One on one interview: 20%
Group panel interview: 15%
Other: 15%
Drug test: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
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