Having never applied to a job in Government Contracting, this experience was a good start. Out of several hundred candidates I was chosen in a group of four individuals to interview. After the process, I came in second place. Unfortunately, the position was given to a current company employee because her contract had just been cut.

Applied online; received a request from recruiter to schedule an interview with hiring manager. Went a little (not a lot) into the role. Asked questions whether I'd used different specific technologies. Asked questions about things you typically do once at a company so you never memorize it (e.g. how to configure SpringBoot to use https). Coding interview was bizarre: asked to implement a sort algorithm from scratch and from memory -- haven't had to do that in over a decade.