The company's Insights team has a drawn-out, three-stage process that lasted over a calendar quarter in my case. There were initial screening interviews by the recruiter and a line manager. It was followed by interviews with potential colleagues. There was an exercise that involved a vague brief; a presentation and a written document were required. A final interview was conducted in which a somewhat antagonistic and unprepared potential future line manager asked me to basically answer the same questions I had already answered during the first round of interviews. There was feedback provided at the end of the process by the recruiter, most of which was categorically untrue.

Contacted by LinkedIn on LinkedIn to schedule a call to discuss the role. Had an initial screening and then was asked to prepare a case study/exercise on the benefits of a customer investing in a LinkedIn career page. The brief had very limited information and I had to do a lot of research on my own which took time. I then had two peer interviews, a technical test and then two more interviews with the hiring manager and a regional sales director. I passed all tests and was told I did well in the exercise only to be told that I wasn’t senior enough for the role and that they wanted someone with management experience which sounded like a nonsense excuse to me. I’ve been a manager for 5 years already in my current role and was even told in the initial screening that the role was not a manager role (which I was okay with as I am looking for a change). People were friendly and the energy and vibe that you get when being at the office is great but I felt like my time was wasted with all the interviews and tests and case studies. I feel that before you are asked to complete case studies, you should do the interviews as investing over two days in completing slides and doing analysis seems like a waste of time if the manager doesn’t even like you in the first place...