Unfortunately I only made it to an "informal" phone interview (by what seemed to be a third party,) so I couldn't shine any light on the rest of the hiring process. I was surprised when I had been asked if was free for a quick chat over the phone regarding the position I had applied for. As it turned out this was more than a "quick chat" and felt way more formal by the phrasing of the questions I had been asked. I was totally caught off guard by this. Also I had only ducked out of work to briefly take this call. No forewarning that this was stage one! A quick courtesy email to let me know somebody will/may call would have been great!

Somehow this company found me on Monster.com and called me up for an interview. I had never heard of them before and thought they were fake, but I talked to my hiring manager over the phone and he asked me to come in for a face-to-face. The face-to-face was mostly the people interviewing me telling me how much they loved the company but not much about the job, which I thought was weird. They focused a lot more on the social aspect of the company than anything else, and most of what they said wasn't even true. The questions for non-obviously focused on ruling out people that can make their own decisions, however they did it in a friendly and very calculated way.