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      Program Manager Interview

      5 May 2016
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Sunnyvale, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Cepheid (Sunnyvale, CA) in Apr 2016

      Interview

      All day with 6 people one half hour to hour each.....including the Hiring manager ......had two good phone interviews ...... ......Nice company with clinical focus...HR was in disarray ......no lunch while they promised a lunch.......They down graded the position to 2 Project manager from Program Manager ....Did not get an offer .....

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      What is your management techniques ? On a more general level, I believe I bring the broad "soft" skills you can have confidence in with a candidate that will fit in your team. I trust you would find me to be well-spoken, energetic, confident, and personable, the type of person on whom your company will rely on. I also have a wide breadth of experience of the type that gives you the versatility to place me in a number of contexts with confidence that the level of excellence you expect will be met. In most situations technical decisions must be made within the context of larger business constraints. Throughout my career I have strived to keep business and technical issues in the forefront, be it as a researcher implementing a test framework in Immunology and /or Molecular Biology, Regenerative Medicine stem cell to capture defects as early as possible, or as the researcher for an enterprise system, allocating resources and prioritizing enhancements to meet strategic objectives. Focusing on business imperatives is a core value of mine, one that I bring to every project on which I work.
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      Other Program Manager interview reviews for Cepheid

      Program Manager Interview

      20 Apr 2023
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Cepheid

      Interview

      The interviews consisted of very standard questions, but the process took several weeks and consisted of SIX different interviews. HR first, then hiring manager, then several members of the team, non-direct leadership, then skip-level up.

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      How would your experience translate to this position?
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      Program Manager Interview

      19 Mar 2022
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Cepheid in Jul 2021

      Interview

      Ghosted after three interviews that went pretty well with positive acknowledgments from the interviewer during the interview. The boiler plate paragraph you receive with the interview request states the candidate will be kept up to date all the time during the process. HR seemed very disengaged, robotic and out of touch during the whole process.

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      Program Manager Interview

      22 Feb 2021
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Cepheid

      Interview

      Initial Phone call with recruiter. This was more of information session. After that phone call with hiring manager. This was a more in-depth information, and Q&A session for about 30 to 45 minutes.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      What was your past experience that is related to this job?
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