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- 2%OtherOther
- 2%In personIn person
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- 0%Employee referralEmployee referral
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- Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at CERN as 69.5% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2.98 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Physicist and Mechanical Systems Engineer rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Étudiant administratif and Student Technical Assistant roles were rated as the easiest.
- The hiring process at CERN takes an average of 50 days when considering 59 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Project Associate had the quickest hiring process (on average 1 day), whereas Industrial Placement Student roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 120 days).
- Common stages of the interview process at CERN according to 59 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 24%
Presentation: 18%
Skills test: 15%
Group panel interview: 13%
Personality test: 8%
Other: 7%
Background check: 7%
One on one interview: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Drug test: 2%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
- Technical Student(125) ;
- Software Engineer(112) ;
- Fellow(61) ;
- PhD Student(36) ;
- Senior Fellow(24) ;
- Doctoral Student(23) ;
- Research Fellow(23) ;
- Internship(22) ;
- Mechanical Engineer(20) ;
- Junior Fellow(19) ;
- Postdoctoral Fellow(19) ;
- Engineer(18) ;
- Project Associate(18) ;
- Intern(16) ;
- Administrative Student(15) .
