Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Charles River Laboratories
Colloquio
Panel style with questions from multiple department heads. Seemed fairly chaotic and unorganized. Had to do a phone interview first. Ended earlier than I expected it to. Was given free lunch, which was nice.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
What was a recent invention that I liked or thought was creative.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Charles River Laboratories (Stockport, England) nel mese di feb 2026
Colloquio
2 hours and 30 minutes of an interview process:
First 30 minutes was star based questions
Next 30 minutes was technical questions- e.g they asked me to describe step by step the ELISA process and DNA extraction like bro I literally just followed SOPs during university, how am I going to remember that from the top of my head?? I felt like they were asking questions to purposely trip me up. And then it was followed by a lab practical assesment - assessing pippete technique and also work under a fume hood to test for working without cross contamination and then a lab tour
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
Star questions:
Describe a time u thought you were doing something right but it was actually wrong.
Describe a time when you had to follow a lengthy process and what did you do?
Describe a time where you saw soemthing someone was doing wrong and corrected them, how did you go about it?
Technical questions:
“Give me a time during your university module where you compete lab work and what did you do?”
They look at your cv and tell you to explain lab processes and its leading questions from there
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Charles River Laboratories
Colloquio
Typical entry level interview canned questions. Some specific questions about background that may be challenging if you can't remember. I felt the questions about background were overly narrow and designed to catch you being dishonest on your resume.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
Can you tell us how you contributed to the success of a group project in college?
Ho presentato la mia candidatura di persona. La procedura ha richiesto 4 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Charles River Laboratories (Italy, TX) nel mese di mag 2023
Colloquio
it was a good and smooth process, interaction was friendly . waiting to look forward from them. the company is growing and in on of the leading position so i am very excited to continue my journey in charles