My interview was on May 23, 2012. It was for a Therapy Assistant Position for the After School Porgram, which works with autistic children. It was mostly a one-on-one with the After School Program Coordinator who was subbing for the recruiter at the time (the recruiter went into labor). It took place while the After School Program was in session. It didn't go as well as I had expected because she treated me a little unprofessionally. I walked into her office and introduced myself, but she didn't shake my hand; the first thing she said to me was "take a seat." The first few minutes consisted of general questions such as "Tell me about yourself" and "Why do you want to work with autistic people." Second, she asked if I knew what autism was, indicating that the position requires some familiarity or background knowledge in that field. She continued to describe the process that new employees have to go through after getting hired: the first few weeks consist of training and evaluations - they have to take seven classes (I think, one every couple of weeks) on the principles and values of the company. During the week, they observe how the work with the autistic kids is done and at the end of each week, they are evaluated based on how well they apply what they learned in class. They receive a pass/fail for each class, and the classes are sequential, so one cannot move onto the next unless he/she passes the previous. In the meantime, we had myriad distractions. People were constantly walking into the room, having side conversations or interrupting the interviewer as she was talking to me. Her phone rang quite often, too, and she answered every call. I was annoyed. Eventually, she had me visit three classrooms, where the staff people were working with the autistic children. I observed in the first two classrooms and took in everything I could, from the interactions between the children and staff and the environment. It was a dull setting, with cramped spaces. The staff people were teaching the children arithmetic, with varying degrees of success. Each had his or her own method. At the same time, the staff also fooled around with each other, cracking jokes and goofing off. They seemed a little flippant at times, and didn't leave a good impression on me when it came to their work ethic. My visit to the third room was the screening part to the interview. A few guys were sitting in chairs and each asked me some hypothetical, situation questions along the lines of "If you were in such and such situation, what would you do?" They were straightforward. Afterwards, I went back to the After School Coordinator's office for the final portion of the interview, the hardest. She asked me what my impressions of the place were and to describe, in utmost detail, what I observed and learned. She then asked some more situational questions, more challenging than the ones in the classroom. The first was "what would you do if you're escorting a child to the bathroom and another runs out of the building?" But the trickiest were "you hear a slap, but you don't see it happening because you have your back turned towards the people. What do you do?" and "what would you do if someone spread rumors about you that could potentially taint your professional image and endanger your chances of employment?" These tripped me somewhat, but the most important thing to do was to keep my composure, even if I did not answer them completely correctly. For future interviewees, be ready for these situational questions and have a good understanding of what autism is.