Janssen Research Scientist interview experience

On site, I spent the day rotating through conversations with people from different chemistry teams, including Med Chem and Process Chem, and I got a lab tour as part of the flow. The focus skewed heavily technical and the schedule felt packed—long stretch of back-to-back discussions with multiple interviewers.

A big theme was synthetic thinking: I remember getting hit with retrosynthesis questions and having to work through reasoning under time pressure, starting in the morning and continuing until the evening. There was also the sense that they expected me to present my thinking clearly and