Difficult. there are at least 4 rounds of interview and a questionaire that you have to fill out. They are only looking for type A people. Once you pass the questionaire the HR will call you for an interview.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Merck (Guangzhou, Guangdong) in Dec 2012
Interview
Internview: 1
Face-to-face on site interview with 1 line manager, 2 colleagues
Questions: behavioural questions
the interview overall is not hard. quesitions are like what's the biggest challenge you have ever had, how do you solve it, why etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Personal questions.
The interviewer did ask personal questions regarding relationship etc. to be sure that you have a tedancy to work in current city
