The recruiter called me after seeing my resume on Monster.com. He was very affable and friendly. He asked me if I would be interested in interviewing for the Genius position for the first Apple Store in this city, and immediately said yes. I have worked on Macs for ten years, and have great people skills so I was pretty confident about doing fine. He asked when I'd like to do a phone interview/mini-skills quiz, I said, "right now." which sounded like it caught him off guard, and he sort of stammered that he'd have to call me back in an hour. The phone quiz was about 5 questions long, which I passed quickly and easily having been a Mac technician. He said there were some other interviewees, but he said he was pretty sure I'd do well in comparison. He emailed me a few days later and scheduled a personal interview for a few weeks later. The personal interview was in a local hotel lobby, consisting of the Manager and Lead Genius from a store that had already been built. They were friendly, questioned me on my people skills, a few in-depth random technical troubleshooting questions, and basically role-played scenarios with me as the would-be genius. Easy and pleasant. After a weeks or so, the recruiter called and offered me the job, conditional to the store being built. Next, however came an excruciating wait of a MONTH before he finally gave the go-ahead to send me the actual offer letter, and gave a start date for Genius Training, which was about 3 weeks later.