The process started with a phone interview that asked basic questions to set up an in-person interview.

I was flown across the country for the in-person interview. A panel of my potential coworkers each brought in a technical question to ask me. I performed poorly. I am the kind of person who excels in a lab environment, not a testing environment, so it was very difficult for me.

I had to make up solutions to problems on a whiteboard, off the top of my head, in pseudo-code.

It felt like I was being asked to recall programming questions from my second year of college. If you are book-smart, the interview should be a breeze. If you don't have all your programming concepts committed to memory, it may be more difficult.

I was asked to perform binary manipulation operations, despite me stating I had no experience in them. I did my best and finished the problem. However, these types of tasks could have been completed more efficiently with a computer and an internet connection.