I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at SAS (Cary, NC) in Dec 2009
Interview
Applied for a job off the company website, as it turns out I knew the hiring manager from a previous job and he short-listed my resume based on that. Interview included a lunch date with three SAS employees plus myself, then an invitation to an on-site interview with seven members of the department I am now working with. After the interview, I didn't hear anything for something like three weeks (however, it was a bad time of year for quick responses due to holidays/vacation issues). Once I got the green light, I was asked to start on the first workday of the month. The first day was entirely orientation, signing up for benefits plans, etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Let's say you are implementing a distributed sort algorithm running on hundreds of nodes. How does that algorithm work? Where are the bottlenecks?