MilliporeSigma Research Scientist interview experience

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Bedford, MAPosted Dec 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a very unpleasant first-touch screening that immediately set the tone for how the process would feel.

It was a Microsoft Teams call with only audio, and the questions came across as highly scripted and impersonal. There were awkward pauses between questions where I could tell the flow was being read and queued, like I was speaking into a script that then got forwarded.

A few of the prompts didn’t match the actual lab-scientist work, like expecting me to describe customer experience when the role itself didn’t really call that out. Even the compensation conversation felt off to me: the salary range was described in a way that didn’t reflect what the posting implied, and I felt the numbers

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