I had a good general experience with my interview. Got called by a recruiter and later had a small phone interview with two of them at separate times. After that they sent me a cultural index form which is quick to fill out simple questions with checkboxes. Next they sent out a programming task to complete, I was given a few requirements and starting templates for implementing a program using SQL, XML and general coding (I did mine using Java). It did take some time, and that’s ok in my mind, this is where you can show that you know what you are doing to the company. Then I had a phone interview where I was asked general and programming specific questions, pretty standard questions I think. I then got called for the in person interview, which started with the development manager and was general in nature (talk about what you have done before and so on). That was followed by a group interview with developers (2 dev, 1 qa, plus the dev manager) It started out with talking about the design of the programming task and continued on with general programming questions (Java, Sql and such) it was detailed and more extensive than a lot of other interviews I’ve been to over the years, but completely reasonable with good questions. There were probably some questions in there I didn’t know, to those I just said I don’t know, and that was fine. (In my opinion it’s better to admit not knowing instead of plain out guessing, if you claim to know something and explain it totally wrong I’d question what else the things you say you know is really worth.) The next step was another group interview, I was talking to 3 other developers about general chit chat, nothing technical here. After that I met with the CTO and the develop manager and we talked about general things about me and the company, and I got a good feeling about the company’s mission statement and how it’s run when doing that. Shortly after that I got the go ahead call and I decided to join the team…