1. Recruiter interview - very nice discussion covering my experience and background. At the end of the discussion it was mentioned that I would progress and actually be considered for a consulting role. It was stated that the PM job description is used to pull in candidates but the actual position would be something else. 2. Interview with a "peer". Went well. Progressed to next step. 3. Candidate exercise: creating a client kick-off meeting presentation which required a MS project plan with tasks, dependencies, resources, etc, communication plan, metrics and dashboards, change management plan, timelines, risk management plan, and a project status template. Other than a slide deck template and a brief description of the client project, zero information regarding scope, timelines, budget, or templates were provided. In the real world project planning is not performed in a vacuum. The client team is consulted and a plan developed accordingly. The project kick off meeting is the beginning of this process. Sadly, I spent time working on this activity which took significant time creating all the documents from scratch. I wish i had withdrawn my candidacy instead of spending time on this activity. A week later I received the email stating that I would not move forward. It should also be noted that people I am connected to were contacted. I have seen others comment that names were requested. It is very likely someone is reaching out to your LinkedIn contacts. I have no problem with this but I prefer transparency. I was "warned" about this company and their process, but I gave it a go to see for myself.

First two interviews were with an SVP and Director of Product and they were good, easy to talk to and not technical. After that they gave a week long take home project. I usually don't do interview projects just based on principle but I decided to do it this one time since I liked the people I had interviewed with and was genuinely interested in the role. They gave a week but I have a full time job and I'm interviewing with multiple companies so I gave myself an 8 hour limit on this project. The assignment was rather vague and suggested mockups to be included which of course I did. When it came time to present, they were incredibly nit picky on very small details of the mockup wanting to go deep into the data modeling on a granular level - I also didn't have enough information from them to be able to model the data and then when asking for more information, they ended the question and moved on. I was expecting much more high level questions about my process, the persona I built, more big picture since that was the project assigned. The level of detail they suddenly wanted was not something I could have prepared for given the vagueness of the brief and the time I had invested in the take home project. They clearly were not happy about this then got very quiet and I could tell they were messaging each other during the remainder of my presentation. At the end when I asked for additional questions or feedback, they said "No, thanks, bye" and ended the call. It was so weird and totally turned me off to the position. The next day I got a generic system generated email saying they rejected me. Read some other reviews from the last week of others who had similar experience. Definitely dodged a bullet and would not have been happy there.