Have been in the IT field for 11 to 12 years, at least 10 years of that as a developer. Have interviewed with a few companies and normally land jobs pretty fast. Had the chance to run the phone interviews for some companies. Recently did a phone interview with a company (because I am looking to see whats around). They hit me up on many different technologies, and I feel it went well, but I could have been done better if I would have relaxed a little bit more.

Next day, they ask me to come in for a face to face interview for 4 to 5 hours, including lunch. They tell me that they want to interview and possibly give me an analysis test. To which I said, sure that sounds like fun and I lok forward to meeting with you.

Hang up the phone and came to the boards with these questions:

1. What is an analysis test?
2. Besides going to lunch to see how I interact with the team, and a few interview questions, what would they be looking for?

When I ran interviews, I made sure we did all the technical over the phone and then did some basic interview in person. Then HR would run a SAT type of test they needed to pass, but never had a need to test them past a tech conversation.

During my phone interview they hit me with Unix commands, Win NT and 2k server admin questions, VB6, ASP, ASP.NET, VB.NET, COM, OLE Automation, ADO.NET, app.config access, filestream questions, Class versus module, data normalization, SQL and TSQL, and HTML, CSS, and some more. Been working in all that for a long time, so I guess I did good enough to bring me in, but now what?

Thoughts?