I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at STMicroelectronics (Edinburgh, Scotland) in Dec 2011
Interview
Telephone interview for approx 30 minutes, with 3 people. Asked a few technical questions about what I'd done in the past, nothing too difficult. They seemed oddly keen to stress that the working environment was high-pressure which suggested to me that the successful candidate would be regularly expected to work longer hours than contracted.