Interview at Roche in Basel

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Hello!

I am invited for an interview in Roche in Basel. The position is Scientist in Pharmaceutical research. I would be glad to find people who worked or currently are working in Roche or Basel pharmaceutical indutry in general. I will appreciate their notes, advices and guidance. Any information about working environment, salaries, research facilities will be so helpful.

Specifically, I would like to get some hints about main questions that are commonly discussed in such interviews. Does they address mainly scientific or personal skills?

I am also wondering about the reasonable salary expectations. I am currently approaching the end of my PhD which I am pursuing in industry in Berlin, Germany. I really have salary range for a similar job in Germany. I donot know what the equivalent in Swiss should be. I assume that I should multiply my estimation for germany by a factor of 1.3 because of the greater life expenses in Swiss. I should then multiply by 1.5 for the conversion from Euro to CHF.

So Salary in Basel in CHF = Salary in Germany * 1.3 * 1.5

I will appreciate if someone can help me with better estimations or with a real examples.

I know that this topic may have been opened several times before. I, however, found that most related threads are too old.

I am so grateful for your interest and help.

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Hi, I can only tell you that in academia (ETH) salary levels for postdoctoral scientists are close to 2x the level in Germany before taxes (to be precise ~5200 against ~3000 euro per month for EG13 TVoeD entry level). After taxes you will end up with well over twice as much. Good luck with your interview

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Good Luck, Mah2010!

BTW, my BF may get an interview for Lab Head from Novartis R&D in June, (Ph.D. with 5 years post-doc, non EU citizen), we are on the same boat, being grilled by the reasonable salary expectation, too.

Here is what we learned from the EF, hope this may helps somehow:

Salary range in Biotech companies??

[Pharma company- Research Scientist [salary question]](http://www.englishforum.ch/employment/30714-pharma-company-research-scientist-salary-question.html)

Interviewing at Novartis

Thanks mgosia for the details, please let me konw if there is any related info with my BF, your help will be really appreciated.