Why I was not applying to another department with my background.
Associate Scientist I Interview Questions
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How to run relevant assays.
Most of the questions are from organic chemistry and the most important areas are s follows. 1. Give at least 10 examples of C-C bond formation. Excluding Pd catalyzed reactions. 2. Give examples of how to break the C-C bond. 3. How to make a C=C bond and how to dissociate? 4. Give examples of C-C Tripple bond formation. 5. Reductive amination, hydrogenation, Pd catalyzed reactions etc. 5. Mole calculations, stochiometry calculations. 6. Basic retrosynthesis, amide coupling 7. HPLC and LCMS.
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One question they asked was my ability to solve specific technical problems.
What is Beer's Law and why would it be used?
1H-NMR of ethyl acetate, 2 molecules types of a Diels - Alder reaction, structure of a sulfone and sulfide, what is a Williamson ether synthesis - super - basic stuff.
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- Describe the most recent project - What is your scientific achievement - How to see if there was a contaminant in qPCR - questions about cfDNA: how to detect, how to identify mutations - technical questions about failed sequencing run: why cluster would fail - Come up with a new innovative technology that does not exist - Which direction sequencing technologies should move - statistics questions (pvalue, etc) - how to automate a process - describe a conflict, how did you sort it?
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