For me, this dates back to 1973, and the interview process was quite different from what it is today, I am sure. Back then, your grades were the most important thing. I graduated Summa Cum Laude, and I was sent on to different interviews for a co-op assignment. I was offered both jobs. One of the jobs was doing the exact opposite of what I was doing in my current job, which was at the college I was attending. In my current job, I was working in the college job placement office, trying to find jobs for college students. In the job I was interviewing for, I was accepting students into those jobs. The second job I was interviewing for was as a co-op student as an assistant secretary in the office of a vice president of General Motors. This was the first time GM ever hired someone "off the street" into a vice president's office. I was floored that I was even sent on this interview and even more floored when I was offered the job. I wanted the second job much more than I wanted the first.

Two 45 minute interviews with 2 groups of 2-3 people. Asking standardized questions like "Tell us about a time you had a tight deadline? How did you resolve it and what did you learn from it? It felt like psychological torture because each group asked me the identical questions and there were at least 7 questions like that in each interview