I totally rocked my interview with Bio-Rad yesterday morning. I was there from 9:30am to 2pm and interviewed (formally) with 3 people, and informally with the production crew that I would be supporting. The job is a big move up for me, from Production Associate II at Meridian to Manufacturing Engineer II at Bio-Rad: Production floor tech at a company of 380 people worldwide and $80M yearly profits to technical investigations and engineering lead for a department of 16 people at a company of over 4000 people worldwide and the resources to spend $136M in product development over the past 2 years and still have the money left to expand the building and staff at their Woodinville location where I'll (hopefully) be working.
They really liked the me-on-paper version that they got to see via my resume, but getting to see how I think and tackle problems really floored them. They took me out to lunch with the production staff (it was someone's birthday) and one of them began describing a problem with some slides that they make. I jumped in and asked a few questions about the problem, and came up with two solutions to try. It's a problem I've seen before, so I'm fairly certain both fixes would work for them; it's a matter of which one is more efficient for their production process. Solving production issues while at lunch on your interview is a good way to get a lock on the job... At least I hope it is.

Best of all, it's 7 miles away via the Sammamish River Trail, so I could ride my bike to work every day.