I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Genentech (Boston, MA) in Apr 2016
Interview
Incredibly drawn out. Your communication and problem-solving skills are on display in these phone screens. Are you concise? engaging? can you build rapport? Three phone interviews waves, about three weeks apart. After you get through those, you wait for them to bring you in to interview on-site, then eliminate the position right before you go for on-site interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
It's a "smartest people in the room" culture, so they want to find out if you are one of them. Almost all behavioral /anecdotal questions about how you:
1. innovated for a team win;
2. overcame organizational or market challenges;
3. operated within conflict;
4. disagreed with your manager or conveyed bad news, or
5. when you had to reach out for help on a project.