As mentioned in previous reviews, be prepared for a very long, unpleasant process. 1) Generic phone interview with an outsourced hiring company. The person you speak with will have no idea what the actual job is about other than the publicly available job description. There is no discussion, jut someone who writes down your answers. 2) Second phone interview with a former employee (someone not in the company). The conversation will be more conversational but again furious writing of notes for review by key decision makers. You better hope they write down your answers correctly 3) THIRD phone interview with hiring manager. You finally get to speak with someone who works within the company 4) Be prepared to come in TWICE for an onsite 5) Call is scheduled to go over the onsite interview. Got pretty excited. Googled to see if anyone had done research on probability of rejection or offer by phone call. Seemed like a no but most agreed an offer would be likely. Rescheduled call. Special kind of torture. Finally had a phone call and was rejected. No concrete feedback. In between each step, be prepared to wait. Be prepared to wait weeks.. You would think that a department so focused on strategic agility would put some thought into their hiring process. Its a pretty convoluted system that leaves the interviewee confused. The job is posted continuously, hoping to be filled by someone who has a lot of time for the interview process or most likely internal candidates. Advice to Genentech: For God's sake, don't schedule a rejection call without alluding to the purpose of the call!

As people said here, the process took more than 3 months. I don't think they really want to hire some external candidates. This position is continuously posted. A person from a third party recruiting company called me first. A person who had left their company called me 3 weeks later. Then, 2 months later, their HR person arranged me an on-site interview. There were 7 persons interviewed me one by one for the same questions. They said they didn't know which product I should be in charge of because they didn't have any vacant position at that moment. 3 weeks later, they sent me an email and want schedule a call with me. The call is just to tell me I was rejected. They asked lots of questions about how to influence or collaborate with other teams, it seems like they don't have a good relationship with other teams.