Company profile
Ginkgo Bioworks
Ginkgo Bioworks builds a cell programming platform that combines organism engineering, lab automation, biofoundry operations, and biological data systems. Interviews can test software reliability in laboratory contexts, data pipelines, scientific collaboration, and the ability to support messy physical-world experimentation.
Interview process
With roughly 1K employees and headquarters in Boston, US, Ginkgo Bioworks hires through dedicated recruiting teams, and loops at companies of this size tend to be structured, with each round scored against a written rubric. Interviewers are usually trained engineers and managers rather than the hiring manager alone, and candidates for analytics engineer, bi engineer, data engineer roles typically face separate rounds for core skills, design or case thinking, and behavioral fit. Open a role below for the questions and focus areas specific to that function.
Questions and process by role
Ginkgo Bioworks hires across several engineering and product functions, and the loop shifts with each one. Open a role for the reported questions, the round-by-round focus, and a salary band for that function.
- Analytics engineer
Analytics engineer interview questions and process at Ginkgo Bioworks.
data - BI engineer
BI engineer interview questions and process at Ginkgo Bioworks.
data - Data engineer
Data engineer interview questions and process at Ginkgo Bioworks.
data - Data platform engineer
Data platform engineer interview questions and process at Ginkgo Bioworks.
data - Data scientist
Data scientist interview questions and process at Ginkgo Bioworks.
data - ETL engineer
ETL engineer interview questions and process at Ginkgo Bioworks.
data - Backend engineer
Backend engineer interview questions and process at Ginkgo Bioworks.
engineering - Database engineer
Database engineer interview questions and process at Ginkgo Bioworks.
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Salary signal
Approximate senior median pay for Ginkgo Bioworks's core roles, anchored to San Francisco and modeled from BLS, ONS, and Levels.fyi reference medians. These are market bands for the role and city, not Ginkgo Bioworks offers. Open a role for the full city-by-city table.
Employee reviews
Ginkgo Bioworks holds a 3.6 Glassdoor rating. External review scores are directional signals. Treat them as context alongside the specific team, location, level, and hiring manager you are interviewing with.
Glassdoor 3.6