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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. I interviewed at PPD (Richmond, VA) in May 2011
Interview
Started with phone interview with Internal Recruiter, then pass along to a phone interview with Director which was scheduled a week later, then Human Resources for a telephone interview. At that point, I was then asked on-site for group interview which was challenging with so many different personalities and titles in the room, but managed successfully nonetheless.
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?
