This position was quite urgent, and the company had been sent quite a few duff candidates, so they were screening candidates first with a phone interview (very simple questions - just to ensure you had actually used Java before, eg. difference between Vector and ArrayList; list all the access modifiers, etc - nothing too taxing, in fact i was very surprised and expected something a lot more intensive). The face to face interview that then took place a few days later was likewise not too taxing. They started off quite easily with introductions, and explaining what the company does. They then went into more detail about my previous work. Questions such as how would an MVC application be structured, etc. There were a number of odd questions asked, too, such as: 1) What Simpsons character are you most like? 2) If you were a chocolate bar, which one would you be? 3) Who do you most admire in history? These questions seem to be asked in order to see if you have a sense of humour, and to determine more about your personality. Personality fit for that company is very important since they have a very low staff turnover rate, and this is how they manage that. I was asked what salary I wanted, and I stated a figure (Which was £5k over the max advertised salary for the role). When the offer came (later that day, or the next, Ive forgotten which), via the agency, it was the salary figure I had stated