Amgen·Research Scientist

Amgen Research Scientist interview experience

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Raleigh, NCPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After I applied online, I moved through a pretty structured sequence.

A recruiter first called me, then the process shifted into a longer day built around a seminar and lots of individual conversations. The seminar ran about 45 minutes with Q&A, and after that I had a set of one-on-one interviews in a block that stretched out for several hours with senior people from the team and adjacent groups.

What stood out was that the questions kept circling back to my PhD work and how I thought about my research, even when the meetings weren’t strictly “technical.” I did one presentation, and that seemed to set the tone for what they asked next—sometimes they probed

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