General questions about who I am, why did I apply for the position
Geneticist Interview Questions
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What you appreciate the most from joining our fellowship program?
Review my CV and asked about methods and software I had used
The technical screen included a coding challenge that involved writing a script to generate the first n elements of the Fibonacci sequence, as well as solving a classic two-sum problem: given an array of integers and a target value, return the indices of the two numbers that add up to the target, with the constraint that each input has exactly one solution and elements cannot be reused. In addition to the coding tasks, the interview included statistical questions, specifically on mixed-effects models and Bayes’ theorem, to assess both applied programming skills and foundational statistical knowledge.
The interview was good. They wanted to make sure that your personality is right for the lab.
Future career goals
They asked about my programming skills, especially around R and various packages they like to use (tidyr is the one I remember). Also questions around unit testing. Most of the panel was friendly, one was extremely condescending.
Q: What is linkage disequilibrium and why is it important to keep in mind during GWAS studies?
In addition to other questions, includes general basic questions about machine learning.
Where do you see yourself in five years?
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