I was found by a recruiter on Handshake. I had a short call with him to talk about the TechStart program. It's 1 year and you rotate through 3 different teams, 4 months each in different areas of technology. Such as, software development, QA, business analyst, architecting, and a few others. 60k salary, 10% bonus, and pretty good benefits. 30 min technical phone screen with basic questions. Tell me about your project, your internship, when did you first get into programming, what technical things do you want to learn, etc. I was invited for a 2-hour onsite interview, structured as two 1-hour interviews with 2 different people in each. The first was with an IT Manager and Product Manager. Questions like tell us about yourself, can you move from team to team, how was your internship, what do you know about our TechStart program, which of the two paths do you want to go down (business or technical?), etc. They were very friendly, easy to talk to, asked great questions, answered my questions and concerns really well, it was a good interview. The next 1 hour was with a software architect and IT Manager. Similar as the first interview, but asked me questions that were slightly more technical (no OOP, data structures, or algorithms) and geared towards my resume. These two guys were even more easy to get along with. They were making jokes and laughing half the time, but in a good way. E.g., I asked, how do you put an entry level person into software architecting? There's no way that kind of person can be expected to do that? They laughed and said yes, glad you caught on, you won't actually do architecture yourself, you're more like a helper/shadower to an architect. I was called the next day from my recruiter with an offer, but I had to decline it later because it wasn't what I was looking for. The salary is about 8k less than the average entry level software engineer's salary in the Twin Cities. Also, I wanted to get into software development and didn't want to waste a year exploring other career paths.