Shire Pharmaceuticals Interview Questions

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Interview Experience (49%)

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Interview Difficulty (9%)

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Interviews at Shire Pharmaceuticals

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Operations Analyst
Year 2018
Job Title Operations Analyst
Group/Division Life Sciences
Location Lexington
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Difficulty
Easy

Interview Questions & Answers - Shire Pharmaceuticals Examples

Incentive Compensation Analyst (Sr. I) Interview - Life Sciences

Anonymous employee in Lexington
Interviewed: June 2018
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
In-person
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Group Interview
Drug Test
Background Check
Interview
**Initial Steps + Phone Screen**
I found out about the Job via networking/informational interviews, and casually mentioning that I was looking for a role in the Commercial Side of the Pharmaceutical Business. I was immediately referred to the Hiring Manager who met with me 1-on-1 the next morning. He explained the role in slightly more detail and gave me the Req. ID to apply online, and said he'd be looking for my application. I had a phone screen 2 days later, after which an internal recruiter contacted me to schedule an interview for the next week.

**Group Interview**
This role is incentive compensation, and lies within the "Sales Operations" Group of the firm. I met with 5 people in total, 1 after the other: Director of Sales Effectiveness, Incentive Compensation Sr. Analyst, VP of Sales, Hiring Manager (Dir. of Incentive Compensation), and the Sr. Director of Sales Operations. The interview began with technical, analytics based questions focused mainly on excel, then moved into more "personality" and "working style" type questions (how do you handle multiple #1 priorities, how do you handle multitasking, how are you with deadlines, etc.), and finished with career aspirations, and standard interview questions (tell me about a time you had to work with someone difficult, whats your biggest weakness, etc).

**Follow-Up**
It took almost a month to get me a final offer in written form, due to administrative issues. The offer was contingent on a drug test and background verification, which took approximately 1 week to finish.
Interview Questions
Most of the questions were typical, but the Hiring Manager who has a scientific background did go off topic and ask me some questions about working in the "scientific" part of the Biotech industry. These questions were mainly around why I was deciding to move away from science/engineering, and what I thought it took to succeed/achieve my goals of getting into B-School if I had kept working in that area. We agreed on a lot of the points I made about things such as the difference in office politics and co-worker personalities in that field, as well as the speed of career progression and wage stagnation that exists within engineering.
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