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      Engineering Interview

      Oct 11, 2019
      Anonymous employee
      Berkeley, CA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Zymergen (Berkeley, CA) in Apr 2019

      Interview

      Really simple: 2 HR phone interview, 1 Technical Interview with Manager. Started off with a basic phone screen about availability and why the company. Then next interview was personality based. Final technical interview was on engineering skills.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Describe engineering leadership experience
      Answer question
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      Zymergen interviews FAQs

      • Engineering applicants have rated the interview process at Zymergen 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 41% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Engineering roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Zymergen overall takes an average of 30 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at Zymergen as a Engineering according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:

        IQ intelligence test:  25%

        Phone interview:  25%

        Presentation:  25%

        One on one interview:  25%

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        15. Engineer(2) .


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