Usually to hire a talent, the interview process consists of two part: phone interviews and a one-day on-site interviews. If you are looking for an intern job, most company conduct only phone interviews due to the consideration of budget. Each interview is usually last 45 minutes, and you may consider it as 40 in that five minutes are often used to "chat" that make you comfortable and get a positive experience.
What kind of questions you should expect?
One of my friend share me the following link, which I believe is very useful:
http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/five-essential-phone-screen-questions
The article is written by a senior software developer in Google sharing his opinion (and suggestions) about conducting phone interview(s).
In a nutshell, the phone interview is a "breadth" skill test but not a "depth" code test. Though, some interviewer intends to run their interviews as coding tests, giving you a problem and ask you to provide a solution. This is usually not the ideal case in that you may end up with hiring someone who crams lots of popular puzzles but is actually lack of enough skills at work.
to be continue...
