Pipeline Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Personalis with 2.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 40% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Pipeline Engineer roles take an average of 60 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Personalis overall takes an average of 18 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Personalis as a Pipeline Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
One on one interview: 50%
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Looks like this company tries to find a robot, not people who can solve a difficult problem and learn something new. The whole interview process is not checking analytical and programming skills but a memory; not a deep understanding of the process but easy file formats and so on.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What file format comes from Illumina? What do Fastq files look like?
What is a BAM file? What data is in the VCF file?
How to compare the effectiveness of two variant callers?
What is sensitivity? Specificity?
The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Personalis
Interview
1 coding test and 1 behavior interview. The coding test was to write some programs within 45 minutes. The behavior interview was to discuss the reason why you are interested in bioinformatics.