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      Scientific Developer Interview

      1 Sept 2019
      Anonymous interview candidate
      South San Francisco, CA

      Other Scientific Developer interview reviews for Emerald Cloud Lab

      Scientific Developer Interview

      12 Sept 2022
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Neutral experience
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through other source. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Emerald Cloud Lab (South San Francisco, CA)

      Interview

      1st round phone interview w/ HR rep, mostly about getting to know candidate and company. 2nd round consists of a take-home exam, open book, open note, open world. You are allowed to discuss questions w/ other people, but not current employees. You've 1 week to complete as many questions as possible. They're engineering (including programming) and science questions in different fields. They're not intro questions, so a lot of background is needed to solve each question. The best approach might be to meet with friends who specialize in different backgrounds and solve all the questions, since they're judging solely on how many questions one can get correctly. There are about 30 questions on the exam (counting all parts of questions), and each can take ~3 hours to solve (if not working with others). As mentioned, you'll most likely have to either learn new or review material to correctly answer many of the questions. Probably the worst part of if all this is that you don't know what a "good score" is, since you're just trying to do as many questions as possible. When is a good enough score? I suppose it depends on who is also interviewing for the position. I was not offered a final round interview because they were getting "extremely competitive submissions" during my application cycle. My advice for future applicants: stay away from this company. Any company that thinks it's OK to give a test that could take 80+ hours to complete a test (if done mostly on your own) raises a lot of red flags. I understand that they might be checking to see if you're able to ask for help, but you don't need that long of an exam to test this. Save your and your friends' time and energy, and use it to apply to better companies. Good luck.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Take-home exam
      1 Answer
      11
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Emerald Cloud Lab

      Interview

      After learning a bit about the company, I was prompted to take challenge questions which were related to advanced topics in programing, chemistry, biology, statistics, etc. Scoring high enough will garner a typical 1 day interview with team members in the various teams.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Be prepare to spend as much time in a week as you can working on challenge questions.
      Answer question

      Scientific Developer Interview

      3 Jun 2021
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Emerald Cloud Lab

      Interview

      The interview started with an one-week, open-book and open-resource challenge question. These questions cover topics from chemical biology to probability. Once you pass the challenge questions, you are then invited to an on-site interview, which includes multiple one on one meetings with team members, manager, and two presentations.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Why are you interested in this position?
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      3

      Scientific Developer Interview

      11 Mar 2021
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Emerald Cloud Lab in Sept 2020

      Interview

      1. talked with HR over phone for 30 minutes and scheduled a test. 2. received test on Monday and had one week to answer the question sets. The questions are very difficult and are in math, organic chemistry, biology and chemical engineering. Some questions are actually vague and need to be more clarified. You need to spend A LOT OF time on it during the week. (40 hr+) 3. I passed the test and had a one-day virtual on-site. Some people are friendly but some left me with a not so good impression. Someone kept emphasizing that this job is fast paced and can be stressful. And some people asked me wired behavioral questions. 4. Got reject email finally, not explaining too much why. Overall, the process is tiring and I would not recommend you applying if you are busy with your current work and are not that into what they are doing. What I learned is this job is really stressful.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Behavioral questions, your interest in this company
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      4