Holloway wrote: "My former employer required interviewers to walk through an entire script of such behavioral questions even when hiring for technical positions."

That's really not a bad thing when balanced properly. Seems to work okay when you kick the suits out of the room for a little bit, if you have time for multiple interviews. (Which, of course, you should: Thirty/Sixty extra minutes doesn't seem like much when compared with a TCO.... slavery's illegal...... total cost of employment of probably $40-70k/anna for an average sysadmin.) Anyone found a better way to balance it? Can testing alone cover substantive knowledge issues, when forced into a system that doesn't allow you the flexibility to do multiple interviews with multiple themes?