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I have a job interview coming up, my first one as a bioinformatics software developer. Are there, as expected, 4 interview steps with different questions and tasks. What shall I expect from each interview call and how can I prepare myself best for each of those?
Thank you very much!
Is this for academia or industry?
academia actually
Where are you getting these details from?
I had other software development interviews and that was generally the expected number of interviews. Is it unusual in bioinformatics? that's actually helpful
It depends. I've only worked in academia and the interviews I've attended were seldom multi-stage. It's been a while since I did a formal interview but usually I visit the location and meet with a team for a few hours. I was also asked to present my work "portfolio" at a place (this was industry, not academia). There were a couple of multi-step interviews of which I recall being rejected from one at the first stage and turning down another at the first stage (I already had an offer from a place closer to home).
There was one place that gave me a coding exam and I failed that one because I was really bad at parsing SAM and I felt that the exam asked for reinventing the wheel when a simple samtools filter command would have done the job.
Most of this experience was when I was fresh out of graduate school with a Masters. Interviews after that have largely been meetings.
Thank you! Yes that is what I remember as well a never ending multi-stage interview process. That's actually really helpful so I know what to expect as well. I guess I am more used to industry related so I am curious to see what is the modus operandi.