I applied online for the senior ruby developer position. After few days,I got an email from HR for setting up a phone interview with them. - Telephonic Interview It was more like conversation on technologies,experiece and resumed based questions. Talk about yammer product and blah blah all cool - Nothing unexpected as it was HR talks. she also explained their hiring procedure - tel,Skype (multiple),Onsite Interview and final talk with their executire or some top. - Skype Interview -1 Again after the telephonic interview, they set up a Skype interview with their senior engineer. We discuss a lot on current technologies and alogorithms that we are using for our searching/indexing. Open Source softwares experience - with little details Ruby Questions ( I don't remember all but trying to compile some) - What is the difference between string and symbol Why and when we use one or another , memory -performance- need of change - What is the difference between classes and modules asked more on this ( include and extending module,mixin and ...) - some other questions too ( ruby features ,ruby way coding and ...) - Non-tech talk -> My favorite products Good points about yammer and field where yammer could be improved. searching/indexing - Scaling (only little) overall - all cool -> expected things -Skype Interview -2 First guy recommended me second Skype interview with their technical lead/another ruby engineer set up the interview for next day - They called me after 1 Hour ( Had to wait one hour and I stopped waiting before their call ) got a call (unexpectedly after 1 hour 10 min late from scheduled time) - We started talking and he was asking me simple technical questions but unfortunately we has Skype voice cut problem here and I don't know he actually listen me or not. - We cut the and tried to connect Skype again - This time was ok ( perfect for his side- not sure?) - When he was asking same extended module question (which had been asked in first interview and i think gave perfect answer and checked it again after 1 interview) that time connection was too bad for his side and this question took around 5 minutes and so what d hell - bad luck i can say! - He asked me some questions from my back ground functional programming - Ruby/Rails Question - What are the convetion /convention over configuration why and when do we use it. benefit, bad points - attr_accessor vs attr_accessible - extended module - some other basics - was easy I guess - Rails / Scaling I didn't get selected for next round but i think this was due to my bad connectivity during call or they found some other one with more experience [ I had experience of only 2 year (little less :P) and applied for senior position. fair enough and enjoyed the talks! - No excuses!