J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 9 mois. J'ai passé un entretien chez Sanofi (Cambridge, MA)
Entretien
Unbelievably slow and inefficient. Applied online, got an email 6 months later to set up phone call. HR rep would set up screening calls and then not call. Took weeks to schedule in person interview. Then had second round of in person interviews-one with the same person I already met, and she had nothing new to discuss. Next person was 20 min late (for a 30 min slot). Then they added third person who I wasn't scheduled to meet.
I was upfront with my salary requirements in the screening call. HR rep said I never said that to her (why would I lie about something as serious as compensation) and said they were thinking more like $40K less than I wanted. She then made a soft offer $25K less than I currently make. I said no multiple times and she kept harassing me to work with her. I wasn't trying to negotiate, I was not interested.
I also found out later that she disclosed my salary request to one of my references, as in I may not need to speak with you because the candidate is asking WAY too much money. My reference forwarded me the email so I saw it with my own eyes. Completely unprofessional and not a place I ever want to work. Am considering reporting to her manager how terrible she has been to work with.
It's very lengthy of 3 rounds 3 weeks at last hr don't even pick the call nor inform may be favoritism or strong reference required. But after every call hr says u are selected for next round but nothing was responded back
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Drilled about the resume and asked some personal insights
The discussion was primarily technical. The interviewers noted that my background appeared to be more aligned with market research and commercial strategy, so they steered the conversation toward technical topics to assess my understanding of scientific and analytical aspects in greater depth.
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 1 semaine. J'ai passé un entretien chez Sanofi (Hyderâbâd) en juil. 2025
Entretien
Overall nice, two folks took the interview. Senior one seems very neutral and other (junior) one was kind of just observing. Initially, Senior asked the questions and then junior.
They could have made a more better environment but I assume it was already evening and they just want to finish the process.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
1. Introduction
2. More about current role
3. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/sql/sql-query-to-find-second-largest-salary/
4. Question to rank a column based on other column value (https://exceljet.net/functions/rank.eq-function)
5. Basic Excel functions
6. difference between XLOOKUP and VLOOKUP, which is faster?
7. COUNT, COUNTA, COUNTBLANK