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I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at PPD (Madison, WI) in Apr 2015
Interview
After applying online, I was contacted by a senior recruiter to set up a phone interview. This process took about 20 minutes. The recruiter does not seem to know so much about the details of the position so she set up a brief phone interview with the hiring manager (30 mins phone conversation). The recruiter said the phone interview would be a behavioral based interview, but it did not turn out that way. The hiring manager just spent time explaining the details of the position and the group. They then invited me in for the behavioral based interview on site. The process took about 2.5 hours. I was interviewed by 4 people.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time when you went above and beyond customer's needs?
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at PPD
Interview
First there will be an HR interview. Then there will be a 30 minute phone interview with the group leader. The final step is a 3-hour long structured interview. Which mostly focuses on behavioral questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a situation when you had to work under a lot of stress. What was the outcome?
How do you deal with conflict?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at PPD (Madison, WI) in Feb 2022
Interview
Started out with phone screen by the recruiter and then another phone interview with a group leader. This was followed by the final interview with 3 other group leaders . Received email a few hours later letting me know I would be getting a job offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Lots of behavior questions. Didn't get any technical questions although one interviewer did get into depth about purpose of experiments, future directions of project, why I chose to do certain experiments the way I did.
Began with a HR phone screen and then moved to a video interview stage. Because of COVID, this was the final stage. There was no on-site visit because of this.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What was a mistake you made and how did you learn from ti?
