I had 7 different interviews over the course of 3 months with 13 people ranging from members of the team I would have been managing to other managers in the department where I would be working. But I never interviewed with the hiring manager, himself, who told me at the end that he was going to go with his original choice (a internal candidate who had been with the company for many years) because he just didn't have a sense of how well I could manage people and he knew this other guy better. Perhaps he would have known what my skills and experience were like if he had bothered to ask me any questions. A little frustrating, I have to say. If he was just going to hire someone he knew and was comfortable with, he could have saved me 3 months worth of waiting and 7 different interviews.