Officially, the interview process follows 5 steps, but I think I was at stage 6 when I was told there was yet an additional step. I believe the key obstacle to finding a candidate was that the hiring manager considered her/himself a world-class expert on this (and obviously a host of other) subject matters although her/his knowledge was indeed quite, well: shallow. This Dunning-Kruger effect in action led the manager to perform long-winded rants about candidates being mostly incompetent culminating in a proto-conspiracy-theory that everybody in our profession was essentially a cheat (and s/he figured this out all by her/himself!). I guess the the questions asked sounded fairly smart to outsiders, but actually were just a mumble-jumble of hot air packaged in technical terms (that sometimes directly contradicted each other). Therefore, it was very difficult to understand the gist of each question (and you really cannot ask each time what the question is actually about). I believe that my puzzled expression throughout the interview reinforced the manager's impression that s/he was the smartest person in the room. At least I know from the manager's rants that I was not the only one, who was confused, so that's nice :-) I would have loved to work for the uefa, but quite honestly, I lost interest in the position there and then.