I applied for a developer's job from a listing on a university's alumni job board. The instructions were to e-mail your resume and cover letter. A person responded asking me to submit an online application through the university, a feature not available to the alumni. Ultimately an interview date was set after I explained that it couldn't be done. The process could have been outlined beforehand. I took my lunch break to walk over to this employer's premises. I met with the company president who asked me about my experience and asked me if I knew Javascript, SQL, java, XML etc and the capacity in which I've been involved on various projects. By now 45 minutes had passed. He then told me to write a test in a separate room. The test was 1 hour long. It was not hard in any way and I answered all the questions. This test was less about problem solving and more about syntax, programming in java and 'why this code won't compile' type of questions. There was nothing wrong with a sample of code that was printed and asked why it shouldn't be written that way. Perhaps I didn't have enough Java finesse at the time. Another question was to list all the J2EE facilities one may use if they were to solve a particular problem (something related to an online store, library, student-prof-school paradigm). It took 1h and 45 minutes for me to leave and I never heard anything back from anyone.