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I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at PPD (Middleton, WI) in Mar 2018
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Applied online had was contacted by HR for a Phone interview in less than a week. Had the phone interview where she informed me that my years of experience do not qualify me for the position, even though from their job posting I did qualify. She told me they lie about years required to increase amount of applications so they can try to get you for less paid roles. She was talking about offers that would be around $17/hour.
Terrible approach to get new hires.
I applied online. I interviewed at PPD (Cambridge, East of England, England)
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Telephone interview, followed by 1st stage face to face interview and a competency test, 2nd stage interview which was to have included a short prepared discussion piece. The telephone interview was straight forward enough and really related to asking questions regarding my understanding of the role and my motivation. The 1st face to face, there was a panel of interviewers, the HR resprestative asked me the same question, relating to my salary expectations on 3 separate occasions but other than that the competency based questions were easy and predictable enough. The test was quite straight forward Numerical and Written reasoning. No communication has been received since this initial interview, not even a standard thanks but no thanks?
I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at PPD (New York, NY) in Feb 2018
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I was initially contacted over the phone by an HR recruiter where she asked me questions regarding my resume and then she proceeded to set up an in-person interview. I had my interview a few days later that same week. The interview was mostly behavioral based and consisted of me answering numerous questions with three separate interviewers individually in three different rooms.
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Describe a time where you went above and beyond your intended job scope.