My department at a low-ranked research university was contacted about a potential co-op assignment to help with forecasting in the after-market transmission unit. Since I was essentially the econometrics guru among the PhD students, my name got passed along. They called while I was out camping in Canada, and it took me a week to get back to them. We eventually set up a phone interview after around three weeks, and then after three another three weeks a two-hour in person interview was set up. I felt the interview went alright, but I failed some of the traditional questions, espc: "what interest do you have in truck or automotive manufacturing?" (very little) never heard back from them after that except for an automated message via brassring three months later stating that the position had been canceled.