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      Bioinformatics Engineer - Production Interview

      9 Jan 2020
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Invitae (San Francisco, CA) in Sept 2019

      Interview

      I applied online to the role as a remote position. I was contacted a couple days later by recruiter for short 20 min call with typical questions. Followed up by a call with the hiring manager a few weeks later. He asked me a few basic bioinformatics, SQL, and programming questions. Was then given a take home bioinformatics programming test, which was fairly simple and mostly busy work. I submitted it and was invited for an onsite interview a few weeks later in San Francisco. Of the 7 or 8 1-on-1's, three were over video conference. One of the video conference people was hard to understand due to noise in the background, but he eventually fixed it. But the interviews were otherwise went fine and on time. Generally, things were just casual chats about what they did, my experience, etc. One guy gave me a few whiteboard questions (some were basic python questions, one was to design a system for monitoring data download/upload from sequencing machine to database). A few people had some specific technical or cultural questions. Everyone throughout the process seemed pretty nice and knowledgable. Seemed like to cool company too. Hotel was decent and they gave me snacks/drinks when I was onsite. Once the onsite was finished they said they would give me feedback on how I did, but unfortunately they did not. It was about 1-1.5 months until they told me their decision. The whole process took about 3 months.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      Describe how I would visualize mutations in RNA-seq data
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Which of our cultural guidelines resonate most with you?
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      Question 3

      Design a system where files are fetched from a sequencing machine then uploaded to a database for storage. I had to draw it out on the whiteboard.
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      Invitae response
      6y
      Hello, thank you for taking the time to review our interview process. It’s unfortunate to hear that the hiring team was unable to make it onsite for your visit. Providing a dynamic, engaging, candidate experience is one of our top priorities. We appreciate your time and consideration and we wish you the best in your journey!