I was asked mostly about my doctoral work, my thoughts regarding the work being done in the new lab, and my overarching research goal.
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General questions asking about science and technical skills.
They asked what my clinical orientation is.
Describe a time when a group project did not go as planned, and how you managed the situation.
Why this position? What you hope to get from this role? What is your future goal?
In the phone interview, the hiring manager asked about my PhD research experiences (very specific and detailed questions) on both my thesis project and other collaborative projects, future plans, discussed future projects at Amgen. For the full day interview, people asked questions about the presentation, future direction for the PhD project, why this position, future plans, etc. Minimal behavioral questions.
Personality Questions Why do you want to come to Amgen Technical questions related to your field.
Mix of behavioral and technical questions specific to the role.
Why do you want to leave your current job and what do you hope to accomplish in 5 years.
The questions ranged from basic topics like bias vs. variance trade-offs to advanced topics like LLMs and self-supervised learning. Usually, they will give you a hypothetical scenario and ask you to solve the problem using ML. Based on your answer, you are asked subsequent questions.
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