Several years ago I was seeking a new employer. Many of them were interested and I conducted interviews.
One told me they wanted to see me giving 4 hr notice to fly up. I rushed home, threw on a suit and called a cab. After 8 hrs traveling I arrived at the hotel around midnight to have the phone ring.
It was the employer who decided to move the interview up 1 hr to 7am. The next morning I went over to the place. They made me sit in the lobby 1 hr. Then 4 people gang interviewed me for 2hrs followed by another 4 people for 2 hrs. The discussions were generally incoherent and rambled. Then I went to the Directors office where a battery of annoying psychological test were conducted. Then set me up for a hand off where they offered methe position and began another series of obnoxious questioning to determine not so much my competitive value but how little they had to pay me.
I played the silly game dodging the answers the wanted. Out of frustration they just asked me an illegal question – I thought a moment and decided to answer. Almost immediately they put an offer down and put me on the street for 8 hrs with no lunch or someone taking a few moments to show me around the area before flying me back to think about the offer.
I turned it down. My comment to them was thanking them for letting ME interview them.
I think so many techies focus on the technical challenges and fail to realize that the employer is not the only one conducting interviews. What would the employer have done if I walked into his office and asked him to take off his jacket, rollup his sleeves, and put a messy doughnut in front of him. Then began talking about meeting women, health problems, and my military days?