Mircocosm of everything that is wrong with the federal hiring process. The interview last almost an hour. The interviewer were only allowed to read questions word for word from a script. They were extremely long and wordy, not well pharsed, and just remembering the whole question was a challenge. I was not allowed to ask for any clarification and the interviewers did not ask me to clearlfy anything I said. For all intense and purposes, the whole interview could have been done over email and nothing would have been lost. This is a prefect repersentation of the over bureaucratization of the federal hiring process. It felt like an interview with a group of robots.