Applied online directly to their company website. Received an email prompting me to follow a link, answer some questions, and schedule a telephone interview - I followed the instructions, answered a few questions, but never received a schedule for a telephone interview. Luckily, they included a telephone number to call with questions - upon calling I learned that they had neglected to open the schedule online, but was able to schedule the telephone interview with them on that call.
The telephone interview was scheduled for 30 minutes, but only took about 20 - pretty straight forward questions about motivation and experiences.
A few days later I was called and scheduled an onsite interview. I was interviewed by 2 people - one in person, the other on speaker phone. The interview was in a small, sterile office. It was late afternoon and I could tell that the two interviewers had been at it all day - it was very mundane and tedious. No surprises on the questions - "what did you do to prepare for this interview?" "What would you do to be successful in the first 90 days?" I forget the exact wording - but the "how do you control the uncontrollable" question...etc.
I was given the opportunity to ask questions, but the replies were very general and nonspecific.
The next step was to be a panel interview with HR, the GM, and a VP - a very general timeline of a couple weeks to a month was stated. I left knowing I did not make a connection (with the person present at least - too hard to tell with the speaker phone interviewer) but still followed up with an inmail note on LinkedIn the next day. (to the interviewer present - no reply)
After 10 days of no word, I emailed the person I held the telephone interview with, but did not receive a response. (forwarded to the hiring manager?) After 3 weeks, I called the person who scheduled my onsite interview - she at least called me back and informed me the process moved on without me. (I knew, just wanted closure.)
