As others have said, the first stage of the interview is a 2-hour coding test that you do remotely and submit via email.

However, based on the fact that they have been posting this job for several years straight, I believe their methods are extremely ineffective (that's the polite way of putting it).

First of all, they haven't changed their questions in a while, thus putting cheaters at a distinct advantage.

Secondly, the test is difficult enough that only fast coders get through. I believe they're losing out on software developers who don't code all that fast but are nonetheless very knowledgeable and do put a lot of thought and effort into crafting clean, efficient code. This is probably especially true for junior developers.

Also, because they haven't changed their test in a while, I do wonder if perhaps the bar has been raised really high by people who have prepared answers beforehand (possibly spending much longer than the allotted 2 hours). Therefore, if you didn't, your answers are going to look quite poor in comparison.

After getting contacted by a recruiter, I took the test and was told that they decided to pass.

However, I then got contacted by two other 3rd-party recruiters for the same position and then a few months later, I got contacted again by the first recruiter who apparently had forgotten that he had already contacted me.

So instead of putting all this time and energy on mass-testing, perhaps they should spend more quality interview time, IMO.

See Careercup for a list of their questions.