The interview process was unnecessarily prolonged. I spent 2.5 months interviewing for this position which involved five rounds, one project which took me six hours of unpaid time to complete, and six total interviews. The role sounded incredible which was why I was willing to go forward with such a lengthy process, but it was incredibly disappointing to not receive an offer after completing the final round. Round one: typical 30 minute phone screen discussing my background and the role. Round two: one hour video interview with the supervisor. These were more behavior questions and went more in depth into my research and survey experience. "Please tell me about your survey development process" "Tell me about a time that you had a disagreement with a coworker" Round three: an unpaid project. You are given survey answers to three questions and 15 participants and you need to write a two page summary. They said it would take 2-3 hours, but because of the amount of information and me wanting to produce a good summary it took me around 6. Round four: three separate 30-45 minute video interviews. One of the interviewers did not even show up during our scheduled time and did not send a reason until after the interview which was incredibly unprofessional. This round would be much better if it was back to back interviews instead of me having to do them on three separate days. These interviews consisted of similar questions to round two (behavioral and digging into my background). Round five: panel interview with 6-8 people on the call. This is a mock presentation as if you are presenting the summary from round three to the clients who ordered the survey. You have to make a powerpoint presentation (additional unpaid time) and present it. Then, they ask questions from the perspective of the client like (can you tell me more about x subject) and they ask you questions about the process of the project (if you could ask one more question to get more information what would that question be?) That panel interview was on a monday and they said I would hear back by the end of the week. It took them three weeks and multiple follow ups for them to tell me that I did not get the job. The hiring manager then said she would happily refer me to other open Gartner positions, and she said they might have another Program Manager role opening up that I would be in the ring for. After sharing other roles I would be interested in, (and following up) she never responded. All in all, I think the interview process was unnecessarily long, and the hiring team needs to improve their communications.