I want to share my experience interviewing with PNNL for a Drupal developer position this past month. I had an initial interview followed by a technical interview. For six or seven weeks I didn’t hear from them. When I did hear from them they wanted to schedule 9 interviews, taking a full day, starting with me providing a one hour presentation, which I did. Apparently, either the development team is difficult to work with or the other people at the lab are difficult, or maybe both, because every question that wasn’t a technical question revolved around conflict resolution, and that was the case in every interview, probably 10 questions in total. I found it concerning the most important challenge for the applicant seemed to be dealing with conflict. For context, I bring almost 12 years of Drupal experience and over 20 years of web development experience. I been on some decent sized projects and I am an Acquia Certified Drupal Developer. Not to mention I had spent the last 6 years at another larger National Laboratory and had glowing recommendations. Here are the notes I received from one of the leaders in the department that was attending several of the interviews I received at the end of the interview day. Xxxxxxxxx Notes: I think southern culture and being a contractor for so long didn’t help his interview. He answered many of these during the interview but I did not capture his answers. Even though he was matrixed and part of a team (communications), it is clear he is a lone developer. I’m getting a weird vibe, hoping this is just a cultural thing I don’t understand. He lacks confidence and I think could easily get along with others. It would be a culture shock. Teamwork, Contractor -> Full time, Money, freedom, deciding what you work on. Realizing he is quite humble and understated which plays poorly in an interview. + southern culture. Says he wants a team, but I’m not convinced. I recommend establishing a strong mentor right away to help with the culture shock. What kind of culture is this, how many times was that word used. Needless to say, I will not be working with them.