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It's interesting to hear of these experiences because my own job applications have usually taken four steps:

* See the advert online, and send an email/fill out a form to apply.

* Have a quick phone-chat with a HR-person, where they ask about salary, history, and try to decide if I'm a chancer, or I have some somewhat useful skills.

* Have a 30-60 minute interview with some technical people, in-person.

* Optionally have a second interview with a tech-lead, or somebody else higher up the chain.

* Receive offer, rejection, or get ghosted.

Smaller companies sometimes have different processes. More than once I've sent an email/CV in to apply and been invited out for beer/food, and received a verbal offer the following morning. No other interviews, or tests.

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I do research assistant work in biology. The best way to get one of these rare jobs is to email the professor directly. They then have a "chat" with you (don't be fooled, this is the formal interview!) and then several weeks later they get around to bypassing the Uni's hiring process and you get a job.

I really am not looking forward to going through a formal interview process, because it will be so jarring compared to what I am used to!

Fwiw I also work in molecular biology and did a recent round of interviews (summer 2020).

Started with applications over a web form on the university careers website, then chatted over email with the hiring manager. Eventually got set up with some interviews with current lab people, and eventually the PI.

Mirrored in industry, although that was back in 2018. So all in all the “regular” route at least for this level of work in biotech/biology is pretty sane.

That being said, I’ve used your method in the past as well to great success, and is one of my secret techniques to get more traction when I’m looking ;)

Hey Steve,

Thought your comment was interesting, so went to check out your profile.

That was also clean and well made, so followed through to your website.

Found this: "I published a simple tool to all your repository details from Github, self-hosted Github Enterprise installations, and other compatible systems."

Do you mean: ...to [pull] all your repository details

Since you have such a nice profile and everything I thought maybe you intended to include this word in there.

Hope this is helpful.

Somewhat related to interviewing and getting hired.

If it's in an appropriate comment for this threat then please remove it. @admin

Hey ExitPlatosCave,

Thought the beginning of your comment was interesting, so went to check out the middle of your comment.

That was also clean and well written, so followed through to the end.

Found this: "If it's in an appropriate comment for this threat then please remove it."

Do you mean: If it's in an inappropriate comment for this thread then please remove it.

Since you have such a nice comment and everything I thought maybe you intended not to make these typos.

Hope this is helpful.

A little off-topic, but appreciated regardless.

I'll fix the entry you mention - as you suspected a missing word there.

Yes, same for me. I was going through my past interviews, and the most I’ve had before an offer has been two, both scheduled on the same day. And I’ve worked in agencies and big orgs, in both private and public sector. Maybe we’ve just been lucky?

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