- Phone "chat" with HR person - Face-to-face panel interview later the same week - Programming task to do at home and submit online - Presentation of programming task to panel three weeks later with most of the same people as at first interview The three-week delay between first and second face-to-face interviews was said to be because the head of software development needed to be on the second panel but he had gone on holiday. However, when I arrived for the second interview, it turned out that he had resigned and so he wasn't on the panel anyway. In the end, I was told by email that I didn't have the skills for a job that I hadn't particularly applied for - I had put in a general application, but somewhere along the line they had targeted me for a specialist role that I was unsuited for. All in all, rather a chaotic recruitment process.