I had 8 one to one interviews in all - two in person and the rest were over the phone, all of which went very well. I first had a phone screen with the Learning Manager I was going to replace as a maternity cover for 12 months and then met her for a face to face interview at their office in Chiswick. I also had a 1:1 interview, the same day with HR - Staffing. I subsequently had more 1:1 telephone interviews with the Senior Director of HR, Director of HR, Director of Learning (based in San Diego and the reporting line manager for the role), Learning Specialist based in China and finally with one of the other Learning Managers based in San Diego. Needless to say it was a long, drawn out process. They asked general experience related questions, competency based questions and the motivation for joining - nothing out of the ordinary. Each of the interviews lasted at least 45 minutes. Towards the end of the process, when they made the offer I decided to negotiate the salary and requested the job title I had interviewed for. But they gave me some spiel about the job title not being important and that it didn't matter!! I understood that they had strict salary guidelines based on job titles. So, they basically undermined my experience and skills and were hoping to hire a good candidate for less! Worst of all they breached confidentiality by disclosing the offered salary to the person I was going to replace as mat-cover - that was unprofessional and totally unacceptable!! I was not happy with the experience and declined the offer.