Comment by Xen0byte

I recently went through the same process for a director of engineering position and it was OK up to the point where a VP thought that asking me low-level detail questions specific to his particular project which I had zero knowledge of was the appropriate way of assessing the potential of a candidate applying for a position spanning the company's entire product portfolio; needless to say, I didn't do that great. The peer-review stage is a tricky one because if a single person on one of the 12-ish interviews doesn't like you then that's the end of it, and you might have the luck of running into some uninspiring automaton with a military background like I did.