An employee submitted my resume, I got a call from a recruiter, scheduled non-technical interview with a senior recruiter, after that a technical interview with a Forward Deployed Software Engineer. I was not impressed with the interviewer. When I started asking questions about the programming project, he was not giving straight answers and finished with: "Just write the program". Strange - the process of elaborating the specs should be an important part of a programming interview. As other people already noted, there is a striking change in the recruiter's attitude after you've been rejected. She sounded very sweet when she was interested, but the rejection letter which I received in response to my inquiry was just a formal canned letter from the company. This makes me think that "friendly atmosphere" is only for show. I did receive rejection letters from other companies before and they were personal and friendly.