Charles River Laboratories Research Scientist interview experience

After that, I met with a hiring manager and a panel of interviewers, but the way the questions were handled felt chaotic—people were distracted and repeatedly checked a laptop, and the interview drifted away from the technical depth I expected.

In a separate experience that also started with presentation prep, I was told later that I wasn’t being considered primarily because of compensation and fit rather than my ability to do the work. That made the experience feel less like a scientific evaluation and more like a mismatch between what they could pay and what I asked for.

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