Initial contact and phone screen was with a member of HR and it was pleasant enough. Then I was given a practical exam to do at home then return for evaluation. It was complex, confusing, time- and labor-intensive, and I actually stopped about two thirds of the way through - it was reaching the level of investment I usually give to paid work. Told the recruiter I wasn't interested in continuing and thought that was that. They contacted me a couple of weeks later and admitted that the test was giving lots of people problems so they decided to do away with it in favor of a technical phone screen and was I still interested? I agreed and scheduled a 45-minute conversation with a developer. The screen itself was quite disorganized, lots of high-level computer science questions mixed in with very basic questions about my specialty (which the screener knew little about). The interviewer was very nice and polite but it quickly became apparent that I was being interviewed for a position that was not the same as the one for which I had applied. When I asked about that the answer was that they had no specialists, everyone just worked on whatever needed to be done. In fact, the interviewer was not from the department with the open position and knew nothing about it. So I wrote off working at Spiceworks as soon as I hung up the phone. To their credit they contacted me about a week later with a decline email in which they said they felt "my skills were not right for them at this juncture." I imagine that's probably true for whatever random job they had in mind.