The hiring manager reached out through me via Linkedin. Initial phone conversation was brief; roughly 30 minutes. I could not get him to describe the position with clarify but we did agree to move on to the next steps. Setting up the location interview went through 5 HR managers - not joking. This gives me the realization of large corporation - even though I work in a corporation that's larger in size. Finally met up with another product manager. First standard question : why are you leaving your current position ? I was like : get your facts right. Your manager reached out to me for an opportunity; you need to sell it to me. Then he went on with google-type brain teaser question. Again, let's get the facts right : you have 45 minutes to tell me why I should join your team and you're here to test me ? simply because you're sitting in the receiving company chair ? I humored him with whatever answer I can come up with. He even said, he was a CEO of his own company and he could answer these types of questions (so one could start a new company with great business ideas). Ok, your startup dream did not work out and you're now here to see if others have better ideas so you can...... Lastly I asked him : why did you quit your CEO job ? He answered: he will have a better chance to make a difference at Cisco. Really ? I replied : maybe you can take the answers from all applicants that you're interviewing and be a CEO of another startup. Grin.