Very lengthy, convoluted, and ultimately pointless process.
The initial interview was with HR, and I had an interview with two would-be coworkers the next day via Google Hangouts, since I was applying from out of state. A manager was supposed to also be there, but he was not.
Because the manager wasn't there, I ended up doing another video interview the next day. Both lasted about an hour.
From there, they requested an in-person interview. They flew me out to Lewisville at their expense, even using a regional airport near where I was living at the time. I was actually impressed by this, as it must have cost them around $1,000 to fly me out there from a tiny, rural airport. I arrived at their headquarters at 9 a.m.
The process, from there, more resembled an interrogation than an interview. I talked to at least a dozen people, one at a time, in a conference room. They consistently asked "gotcha" questions. Sometimes the same person would come in and talk to me again after a couple hours.
I think they were needling to find out if I was misrepresenting my skills, but I was upfront on my resume that my PM, BA and software dev experience was not in the insurance industry. Despite this, it felt like I was being cross-examined, like they were prodding really hard to catch me in a lie I wasn't telling.
I went out to lunch with a few of the people I had talked to previously. The experience was very unpleasant. Usually, companies use lunch interviews to ask more personal questions to determine personality and team fit, but instead they continued asking me very technical, very specific questions about specific projects I had managed the whole time. I literally was unable to eat my lunch because I spent the entire time talking. That's not a joke, I had a full plate of food when I left. I've never experienced anything like it.
Eventually I spoke to the product director, David. He seemed annoyed and aloof, asking me no questions, and instead asked only if I had any questions for him as soon as he sat down. I asked him what he enjoyed most about working at EZLynx, and he replied only "helping people." We stared at each other for a second, then he said "anything else?"
I was actually kind of speechless at first. What kind of answer is that to an open-ended question?
After a second to recompose, I asked him what he thought the biggest challenge was, both for the incumbent to the position and for the company as a whole. His answer? Two words: "follow-through." I don't know what that means.
During the brief silence that followed, while I was trying to think of something else to ask and process the situation as a whole, he says "you don't have to ask me any questions if you don't want to."
Again, I was kind of dumbfounded and speechless for a second, having never experienced anything remotely like this in an interview before. He, apparently, took my confusion as his cue to leave the room.
I thought the interview was over, but instead they then gave me a quiz I had already taken, because they wanted to physically watch me take it. And they did. I sat in the conference room and took the quiz I had already taken once while one of them stared at me from across the table the whole time.
This, apparently, concluded the interview. I had arrived at 9 a.m., and it was 4:30 p.m. when I left.
The whole thing was honestly bizarre. I felt kind of down (and hungry) walking out of the interview and heading back to the airport, but in retrospect I'm really glad I didn't get this job; if my experience during an interview was this negative, I can't imagine actually going into that building every day.