Application was very easy. You e-mail your resume. A follow-up bot responds and asks for any additional information that you might have left out. Some time later, a human schedules a 15-minute phone screen as a quick bozo filter. This is to determine if you are worth spending interview time with a more technical and expensive employee. The next interview was over the phone, and was overwhelmingly a technical demonstration to prove that you do, in fact, know how to write software. I was dropped after this point, given the explanation that it was a "painful choice" to pass over "extraordinarily promising" candidates.

Fog Creek is has the most organized of screening process I could imagine. Really shows that their core competency is project management software. The interview process was described as five 1-on-1 technical interviews. The interviews are strictly technical, and result in a hire/no-hire vote within hours. As long as I make it through the 5 without getting two no-hires, then the next step is a job offer. I participated in one technical interview, writing javascript code on a shared whiteboard. I answered all questions and solved the problem to every level of complexity asked. The hour went fast, and at the end I asked if there was any other problems or details he would have asked if we had more time, and he said no, I had answered everything he had. Then I got the goodbye form letter. Apparently that guy's vote counted twice because I was out.