This company seems to go under a few names on Glassdoor, Anpac, American National insurance, and something else. Contacted them and a lady from HR got back to me, asked me some boilerplate HR questions. Sent to the Glenmont site, led into a tiny hot room with an old computer and given some kind of two+ hour aptitude test. The directions weren't clear and I went out to HR for clarification and THERE WAS NO ONE THERE on two occasions..vacant desks ! The test was timed with a countdown timer. The questions looked blurry, like they were copied many times out of some workbook from the 70s, and you would put your answer on the computer. There was a part on flowcharting(hope they don't use that!) and the rest were questions you would find on the SAT (like completing difficult letter sequences). Do they care if I know what encapsulation or a function pointer is? Or even SQL? Or are they writing 60s type COBOL(or that mindset with a modern language) with pages of flowcharts. I found it extremely impersonal and was never asked about my technical background or to answer any technical questions. I've hired candidates and asked them so sketch out a solution on a white board, tested them on basic algorithms or gave them a small task to do in a language and to discuss their code afterwards. The testing that I was given would be appropriate maybe for an agent who wanted to become a developer. They could have had a technical manager spend 15 minutes on the phone with me (after seeing my background) instead of me wasting 3 hours. Their technology seems niche as well, they seem to use non-standard dev tools which could be a red flag for your carrer. I don't know about their insurance business but they sure don't know how to hire developers. They are also constantly advertising for the same dev positions, that seems weird too. If you are a good timed test taker this may be a place for you.

Interview was fine. Nothing unusual. A lot of questions about languages and programming methodologies. But in the end I think they are looking for someone who is smart and that they think will fit in with the team.