A HR interview, the HR has a good attitude, asked some informal questions, introduce the prolonged process: HR meet you, technical meet you, take live code test, go to the site everyone meet you, CTO meets you, finally offer or not. Direct say, with a 135-185k salary in bay area core zone, this process is a bit too long. All of these because they are "elite". This concern me as the internal culture, will it fulfilled with intelligence demonstration/ presentation? Anyway, the job is in their tech center, they expect collaborate with industry, and repeatable work. So, it is bioinformatics engineer job. Highly suggest the HR remove those misleading prestigious words in job description, and change the title to engineer not scientist.