Gilead Sciences Research Scientist interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Foster City, CAPosted Mar 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a day onsite that kicked off with a one-hour overview from the team about my prior research, basically setting the stage before I ever sat down for the deeper conversations.

After that, I went straight into a long stretch of one-on-one interviews across the day. A lot of the people I spoke with were polite and friendly, but the overall vibe felt more focused on personality and cultural fit than on digging into technical depth.

I also picked up on an odd “pedigree” energy—several interviewers seemed to have an air of superiority because of where they’d trained in graduate school. One person in particular felt particularly pretentious, and it definitely made the experience uncomfortable in a way I wasn’t expecting.

What stood out most after the fact was how the

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