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Ginkgo BioWorks Overview
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- Boston, United States
- 201 to 500 Employees
- 2008
- Company - Private
- Biotech & Pharmaceuticals
- Unknown / Non-Applicable
Competitors: Unknown
Ginkgo Bioworks is the organism company. We design custom microbes for customers across multiple markets. We build our foundries to scale the process of organism engineering using software and hardware automation. Organism engineers at Ginkgo learn from nature to develop new ...
Mission: Ginkgo was founded with the mission to make biology easier to engineer. Engineering biology isn't easy. It is frustratingly, painfully difficult. It's programming without a debugger, manufacturing without CAD, and construction without cranes. At Ginkgo we are building a team ...
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4.7
★★★★★
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Jason Kelly
45 Ratings
★★★★★
"amazing place to work"
Aug. 2, 2022 - Anonymous Employee
Pros
allows employees to be creativeflexibility in commercial roles
lots of female leadership
Cons
still going through transition of startup to public companyDiversity & Inclusion at Ginkgo BioWorks
4.4
★★★★★
(28 reviews)
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Does there seem to be diversity at Ginkgo BioWorks?
...I can't see how a company with a lack of diversity and inclusion could continue to be government funded....Read More
Ginkgo BioWorks Interviews
Experience
Positive59%
Negative20%
Neutral22%
Getting an Interview
Applied online81%
Employee Referral9%
Recruiter3%
Difficulty
3.0
AverageHardAverageEasy
Automation Engineer Interview
Anonymous Employee in United StatesAccepted OfferPositive ExperienceAverage InterviewInterview
The interview process is two phone screens followed by an onsite. The onsite consists of a presentation on how you automate a miniprep protocol or a presentation on a past project. This is then followed by two 2 on 1 interviews. The 'onsite' can be remote.InterviewHow would you automate the DNA miniprep protocol?
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Ginkgo BioWorks FAQ
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Does Ginkgo BioWorks offer sponsored degrees?
...Pay was low, esp for strain engineers....
January 26, 2022
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Employees rate Ginkgo BioWorks 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 86 anonymous reviews on Glassdoor.
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Overall, 97% of employees would recommend working at Ginkgo BioWorks to a friend. This is based on 60 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
59% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Ginkgo BioWorks as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Ginkgo BioWorks.
89% of employees think that Ginkgo BioWorks has a positive business outlook. This is based on anonymous employee reviews submitted on Glassdoor.
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