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Principal Scientist Interview Questions
490 principal scientist interview questions shared by candidates
Tell me about a time where a company made you do something you didn't agree with?
Tell me why I SHOULDN'T hire you?
How would you investigate a new electrolyte? Which techniques would you use to characterize the particle surface, SEI? What is your experience with spectroscopy techniques, such as Raman, XPS, FT-IR?
Technical questions (HPLC and troubleshooting) and behavioral questions
Why do you want this job?
GMP/GLP, IQ/OQ/PQ, ISO 10993, HPLC, GC,
What is Beer's Law and what proteins are fluorescent?
What does success in 5 years look like to you if you were to join?
Explain the correct solution to the Monty Hall problem, in the spirit of the famed Google challenging questions where people want to see how you reason over hard or tricky problems. While the idea of such a question is, in principle, fine, I thought this specific one was rather unfair as the Monty Hall problem is known to be a textbook case of human inability (for a series of psychological reasons) to properly calculate probabilities, where even some Nobel laureates failed!
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