Craftlogic Software interview questions

I submitted my resume and had a response the same day. I scheduled a phone screen with a recruiter via their online scheduling system for 2 days out. A recruiter called me on time and spoke with me for 15-20 minutes asking screening questions and getting an understanding of my background. She then scheduled me to setup a technical phone screen with a software developer on their staff. The interviewer called me on-time and it took about one hour. I found myself learning more during the interview than I would have expected and the interviewer gave me plenty of time to answer and work through the problems. Overall, I think I wasn't as senior as they wanted but I did answer all of the questions. He said that if I wanted to brush up on a few things and reschedule then I could and then give it a 2nd try, which I may do. The interview process was professional, thorough, and the interviewer was a strong interviewer and developer in his own right.

15 min. Recruiter interview, scheduled 90 min technical. I had questioned the Director on if the technical interview was with the end-client, apparently Craftlogic has a policy of putting candidates through time consuming pedantic questions, prior to getting to find out if there is any gold at the end of the rainbow. I found the whole experience, from picking your own timeslot online for the first 15 minute interview, to allocated 90 minutes for a technical interview that really had no purpose for the candidate (interviews are two-way engagements, ie; do I want to work for this firm or on this project, what are the parameters of the engagement, etc.) ... you may get to that, after you jump through the hurdle of discussing who knows object oriented programming principles. I've implemented them, and I can tell you ... its annoying to have an interviewer not listen and try and play their canned answers back to you, not realizing you just said the same thing ... because they don't really know how to apply (or not apply) the principles they are asking you about. Save your time, and effort for engagement interviews ... these guys have a process, but it an "exlusionary" interview process or one of grading ... I don't accept grading (even on a curve) from examiners that don't know what their doing.