Recruiter call > hiring manager call > 2 calls, each with 2 people from cross functional teams > presentation > general manager. I got to the presentation stage. The prompt was very broad - in short "present a product you owned from start to finish, including how you scoped requirements, stakeholder management, timeline management, and executing requirements". It was meant to be ~20 minutes with questions. I was rejected and the feedback the recruiter shared was that the team wanted to hear more about how I worked with other teams, particularly engineering, and the details about how the product was built. I didn't approach it exactly that way, instead presenting what the product was, the problem, solution, how we identified the solution, ways to tackle building the solution, the timeline, stakeholders and working with them throughout, etc. I didn't dive deep into work with a particular team because, well, the prompt didn't really seem to call for it. All in all, while I enjoyed meeting the people I did, I feel pretty negatively coming out of it. From my perspective, presentations with broad prompts should be judged by: was it relatively engaging, was it organized, did I understand it, did they give me a sense of how they did things, could they answer questions about it... not “did it include this specific thing that we didn’t specifically ask for.”

There are 5 rounds in total. Round 1: 30 min HR screen Round 2 : 30 min with an engineering manager Round 3: 30 min with a group PM *Between round 3 and 4, you get a take-home assignment which is a case question. You are supposed to send in your write up 48 hrs before the next step, which is an onsite. Round 4 - 75 minutes onsite, which includes 20 min case presentation, 10 minutes Q&A and 45 minutes of a "workshop" where you are supposed to come up with a MVP on the spot. Note that the people on this round were people you've never met in your earlier rounds. Round 5 - VP of product. The interview process was extremely disorganized and strange, because there is nowhere in the process where they tell you which product role or which product team you are being interviewed for. When I asked this question over and over again, they kept telling me "it doesn't matter" because it's a "shared pipeline". I invested a lot of time and energy and clear all the rounds, was invited onsite, given an office tour, and received a standard rejection message 3 days later. The rejection letter didn't even spell out which role I was interviewing for - that space where the role was literally said "TEMPLATE". Imagine how they would treat me if I actually got the job - will I be laid off from a "template" role too? For a company that does HR software, this is almost comical.