I was contacted for an interview one month after I applied. The interview itself was very laid back, we sat in the lobby outside of the hospital cafeteria. The chief scribe was pretty young (like in her early 20s, I assumed?) like myself, so I felt really comfortable talking to her.
In the e-mail she sent me prior to the interview, she said that she would give an info session to let me know what the job was all about, and that would be followed by my individual interview. But when I arrived, she began with asking me the interview questions, which were all pretty simple. After a few of my answers, she began talking like I already had the job. I think the whole point of the interview was just to make sure that I'm a normal, competent person and see if I could follow basic instructions (getting there on time, having my resume/schedule printed, knowing what a scribe is).
The funny thing is, I crammed all the vocabulary and medical abbreviations from the study guides into my brain, only for her to tell me when I got there that she wasn't going to give me the test because she felt I didn't have enough time to study, which frustrated me because I was so ready! Instead, she gave me a multiple-choice quiz that reminded me of the portion of the SAT where you have to "spot what's wrong with the sentence", and be able to spot errors in grammar, capitalization, and spelling.
Then she went through an explanation of the expectations of the job, how people succeed in this job, what the duties are, and the kinds of qualities they look for in scribes. She explained the "probationary" period of three months of making minimum wage and the different phases before you can be an independent scribe and move up to $10/hour.
After that, she walked me around and gave me a general tour of how to navigate my way to where I needed to be for when I show up on orientation on Monday (which is when I finally realized that I had been offered the position -- she never said it outright, haha).
Overall a positive, casual experience. I can see why some people would think that the process is a bit disorganized, but I didn't really have a problem with it and actually enjoyed the laid-back-ness of it all.