I received an email from a recruiter regarding my resume on Monster.com. I applied on their website referencing this and received an email response from HR 11 days later. They requested I fill out an online personality profile while waiting to schedule the initial phone interview. A 20-30 minute initial phone interview was scheduled for the following Monday (5 days later) but the interviewer did not call until 55 minutes after the scheduled time. He apologized and we re-scheduled for the same time the next day. The phone interview went well. It was mostly information about the company and about the team on which I'd be working. Then he asked four or five standard HR questions (Where do you see yourself in 5 years? Why do you want to work for us? Would you be willing to relocate? Etc.). At the end of the interview he indicated he wanted to proceed to the next step and to schedule a skills assessment test to be proctored locally. He said HR would be contacting me within a week or so to schedule this. Six days later (the next Monday) I receive an email from HR saying that they've decided "to move forward with other candidates."

I had the phone interview early on, which was a pretty standard phone interview. Mine was unique in that I interviewed here for a different role (Software Development) than on my on-site interview. The questions here were pretty standard: talk about a coding project and what data structures I used, about my experiences working alone/as a team, etc. I also got an overview of how the software works and got an opportunity to ask questions of my own. The dreaded test was quite tough. That was my least favorite part of the whole process; you have a proctor watching you from your webcam (which you must have, by the way) take a coding test without the ability to look up any syntax or even test your code out. There wasn't a time limit, but you essentially had to take the whole test in one sitting. That's quite hard when the test takes >4 hours, and for working applicants. Once I got to the interview, everything was amazing. They reimbursed me for travel expenses, put me up in a hotel, gave me an extensive tour of their very extensive campus, and overall sold me on the whole thing. This interview was where the experience went from a neutral to a highly positive experience.