4 Part Interview
1 - In person interview with HR. Basic interview questions.
2 - Interview with Cardiology/ Endovascular + technical questions about past projects
3 - Interview with Pain Management + take home mechanical device assignment
4 - Submit assignment 24hrs later, defend solution to completed assignment
Try to get 1,2,3 done in 1 day instead of multiple days. Be prepared to wait between interviews. Expect a week between (1,2) and (3) and another from (3) to (4).
The interviews have been mostly positive and friendly.
They seem to be interviewing a large number of candidates.
They asked about:
- Base salary (say 50-60k negotiable).
- Transcript (for new grads) and ask about your low marks
- Your interest, experience, knowledge and passion for biology, biomed, biotech
- Why you want to work for them
- Your strengths and weaknesses
- A past research project + your problem solving thought process
(Past research experience is highly valuable, Baylis is a research based company)
- Solidworks experience (basic modeling, watch youtube tutorials)
- Other jobs you are considering (and if in GTA)
- 2-3 references
- They asked if interested in doing masters or PhD
Info:
-Show passion for wanting to work in the field and in their company.
- Employee turnover rate (1-3 years), seems like they have a hard time retaining employees....
- Apparently they are looking into more corporate structure to promote employee career growth, to be implemented 2014. (time will tell... )
- Growing company, possibly growing faster than management can handle.
- The R&D engineers who work there are very friendly
- No room for growth, some R&D engineers have been there for long. Tired R&D engineer structure in the works.
- Ask about their corporate structure and corporate culture.
- Ask about work life balance.
- Hard to tell if they are exploiting candidates for innovation with their interview assignment or if they are really trying to better understand you and your problem solving thinking.
- They do a lot of injection molding + rapid prototyping.
- Reiterative designing + documentation
- Dress code: business casual (rather dressy, higher ups in suits, lots of heels)
- 25-30 ish engineers (Sept 2013)
- Cardiovascular/Endovascular is ~75% of their business, Pain Management ~25%
- Ask HR for a follow up email when you get your phone call asking you for an interview.