This position was brought to my attention through my staffing agency.

They presented the position, and I did an initial phone screen.

The phone conversation was about 45 minutes long and consisted of mostly technical questions. Very little about personality came into play during the screening.

While there were basic, straight-forward answers, there were quite a few challenging "big picture" questions as well that involved designing project structure as well as database schemas.

Having only done the phone screening, it proved to be quite difficult to conduct a relatively in-depth interview over the phone.

The difficult piece of the interview was answering business case or design questions that took a minute to think about. It would have certainly helped to have a whiteboard or at least been in the room with them.