The US DOGE Service, formerly the US Digital Service (USDS), has been interviewing potential candidates in recent weeks and months, even offering salaries on the highest end of the government pay scale. WIRED spoke with one person who made it through part of the DOGE interview process about what it was like. The fifth and final interview is a placement interview, where applicants would learn more about what kinds of work they would be assigned if hired. Seeing USDS referred to as the “US DOGE Service,” the interviewee says, made them “want to barf” because “it represented the hollowing out of the organization I appreciated. I didn't know what to make of it, since I applied on a lark and hated what DOGE was doing.