One online quiz, zoom interview with a lead CLA, zoom interview with the associate director of lab operations, zoom interview with the department team, an in person interview with a lab practical that they'll reimburse for travel expenses, a final interview with the senior vice president of lab operations, and one more zoom call where they review the offer with you. The process was extremely drawn out and long. Some of the questions felt really repetitive. I'm pretty disappointed that after that whole process they wouldn't negotiate pay with me and only offered a sign-on bonus.

The interview process started with a virtual assessment through TestGorilla, followed by a Zoom interview with a senior Clinical Laboratory Associate. After that, I was invited to a three-hour in-person interview. The onsite interview included two back-to-back 30-minute interviews and a lab practical. For the lab practical, the SOP they give you is very short and doesn’t explain much. You’re basically instructed to pipette different volumes of liquid (it’s just water) into tubes in a specific order. The main thing they’re testing is whether you can follow directions carefully and handle pipettes correctly. After mixing, you place the tubes on a vortex (the vibrating machine) to mix them, and then use a centrifuge (the machine that spins) to bring everything down to the bottom of the tube. It’s meant to simulate basic PCR prep, but it’s more about attention to detail than actual science knowledge.