Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at CERN as 100% positive with a difficulty rating score of 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Electronics Technical Engineer and rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Electronics Technical Engineer and roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at CERN takes an average of 35 days when considering 1 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Electronics Technical Engineer had the quickest hiring process (on average 35 days), whereas Electronics Technical Engineer roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 35 days).
First you get invited to a video recorded interview followed by a second stage interview that comprised a written test, an interview with the team and a panel interview. You have to prepare a presentation on your career history for the panel interview.
Three-stage interview. First was asynchronous interview using Sonru. The second stage was the coding exercise and finally panel interview followed by a test and "meet the team activity" (all 3 activities in one day). To sum up, I invested like 8 hours total of my time in this process, and in return, I received 50 seconds voicemail message around 19 on Friday with feedback that they selected someone from inside CERN (there were 3 other people besides me in the final stage). The message included a promise that if I want to hear more feedback I should contact. I wanted to follow up to receive more info, called back 2 times, mailed once but I got no further response. This is my real issue with this process, I invested so much time to get 50 seconds in return. I would definitely score this experience neutral or even positive if I would get more in return.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions about real-time projects, embedded, distributed systems, and standard C++ questions with some elements of modern C++. Additionally 2-3 python questions and some mutex, multithreading theory.
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Submit forms that included questions linked to nationality, education, experience, motivation. Asked for recomendation letters also, followed by an automatic video interview via SONRU. The whole process is quite clear but i wasn't invited to a call or nexr interview after SONRU.