So I recently did a number of conversations with Atlatl in regards to a developer role there. I never made it on site, but I did come away with a few impressions that hopefully might help other future prospective candidates out. According to official published reports, Atlatl is currently sized at about 30 employees and from what I've heard from the folks I spoke with, about a third of these are in the Portland office. Your first conversation will be with the "H.R. person" for the company from Charleston, who turns out to not be a direct employee but instead is in charge of her own search firm who is just there to screen you. My impression of her was cold and all business, as she asked me very routine, generic & non-personalized questions: "walk me through your career". "Prioritize these aspects for me from most important to least important: 1) salary, 2) benefits, 3) schedule flexibility, 4) work environment 5) career growth". My second meeting was a GoTo (virtual) meeting between a project manager and a QA manager, mostly to go over my background and to get a feel for me as a person (it wasn't very technical in any way, shape or form). I apparently passed both these conversations and it was at this point they sent me a programming assignment through my headhunter (and you'll see it described below), which wasn't forwarded to me until a few days later. The intention of this programming project was to have me complete it and then present (and explain it) to a review committee via another GoTo Meeting. Maybe after that point I might have been invited to come up and meet with the team in person. The programming project took about 3 nights of 2 - 3 hours each night to assemble into a workable demo, and I had been planning on spending a fourth night to clean & polish it up. Because my real life work decided the same week was going to be a "everything's due yesterday" bonanza, I wasn't able to devote more than a couple hours each night to do the project, and the H.R. person pulled the plug on my candidacy saying that I (or my headhunter) wasn't communicative enough. Okay, that's fair; but at the same time I really couldn't work up enthusiasm for a role where the actual app wasn't going to be consumer focused or even public facing (from what I could tell, their software is more of an enterprise-type app that's not intended to be available publicly). There was also a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator style personality quiz I was asked to do, which just seemed like another lame & time-wasting hurdle that only a fully unemployed and fully enthusiastic (or desperate) candidates would have the patience to undertake. In any event, I was glad to get to know the folks at Atlatl and I hope my experience going through the process will help you to prepare and pass your own interview day. If my notes helped you out, please let me know by voting "yes" on the "Helpful?" question below.