I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Illumina in Feb 2022
Difficult interview
Application
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Illumina in Sept 2018
Interview
Round 1: Phone Interview by the HR to discuss my visa status and employment eligibility.
Round 2: Skype Interview by the manager who was the director of bioinformatics to interview me about my skills, knowledge and qualifications
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
Explain the difference between long and short reads? what are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
First, online assessment, two coding questions. Then a phone screening, ask a lot of NGS questions. Then OOP, design pattern, Linux. After that, HR phone call. Then a virtual onsite, ask to analyze .vcf variant call file.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Illumina
Interview
A few phones interviews, followed by long, all day, in-person interviews. The phone interviews were great. Mostly about getting to know you as a person, your background and work experience.
The in person was a bit rough, a lot of people from many different departments. Many were purely software engineers and didn't understand the basics of some biochemistry, so it made it a bit difficult explaining previous life science related work. Some of the older interviewers (not all) really acted like they didn't want to be there or talking with you at the time.
a series of videos that you need to record yourself answering, simple bioinformatics and statistics questions followed by a coding sample. The coding sample was easy and the bioinformatics question was answerable to most of with a good bioinformatics foundation
