Regeneron Limerick

Mick McCarthys Baby wrote: »

Anyone know what it’s like to work here as a BPS ?

Thargor wrote: »

The shift pattern is alternating days and nights 7-7, kind of like this:

https://www.bmscentral.com/learn-employee-scheduling/2-2-3-2-2-3-rotating-shift/

You have a long week and a short week alternating, 12 hour shifts, 7-7, so 2 nights on, 2 days off, 2 days on 3 days off. It will make more sense when you do it. Basically a 3 day weekend every 2 weeks and you're never more than a couple of shifts away from 2-3 days off so loads of free time.

The work is grand, you're busy but well trained, it's repetitive but they're very fair and everyone is sound, time flies in there. Great money, 33% shift premium, overtime if you want it, free breakfast, free lunch every day, good breaks, good pension, stock options, bonuses etc, it's about as good as you could hope for, huge opportunity for advancement aswell, once you have a bit of experience you'll be promoted.

Thargor wrote: »

Yeah as generic as it gets what motivates you type stuff, emphasise your love of science and working as a team, they're big into that, say you like them because of their emphasis on the science, founded by scientists etc, see the website and you'll understand. Also stick to procedure always no exceptions, they're huge into that. Skype interviews these days obviously. I think the first one was phone.

90% of new starts have feck all experience so don't worry about that.

fryup wrote: »

compared to vistakon, what's it like?? anyone know?

Thargor wrote: »

The phone interview will be casual not technical just filtering out time wasters, just talk about your qualifications and experience and the generic what motivates you stuff and how much you love science and teamwork, you prefer shift work to 9 to 5, no issues with night shifts or overtime if needed, what do you know about Regeneron etc, get the companies history and a few current products from the website and wiki. Eylea for macular degeneration was the big breakthrough product for them back in the day, Dupilumab for ezcema is the current big money maker, mention the recent approvals and the exciting looking product pipeline, covid drug etc to show you did your research. Be able to answer what you think your career path would look like, you'd like to be a team lead or supervisor some day maybe.

I don't think I got asked many technical questions tbh, just know it's all bioreactors so know your stuff about them, what they are and what they do, expressing proteins in ecoli and other recombinant systems, monitoring pH and O2 levels, taking samples, making up media and feeds for the reactors, aseptic technique very important always, emphasise that. Maybe read a bit about different gowning levels in cleanrooms, they won't go into much depth anyway, that will cover you aswell if they ask what you expect your day to look like.

Another common question is what would you do if you saw someone doing something wrong, be pretty hard on that they are strict in there, always correct people and if it's serious escalate to supervisor straight away. I can't really think of anything else, best of luck with it.

That's all for bps by the way, QC might be different.

Mick McCarthys Baby wrote: »

It was 2-3 weeks after I applied when they got in touch for the phone interview

Monkey222 wrote: »

I assume they contact you through email to schedule the phone interview?

VE2021 wrote: »

They only give averages, I don't want the averages I want the hard facts, case by case