I should have listened to all of the interview feedback that was previously provided before going through the interview process. An recruiter external to Assurance reached out to me about this PM position. I went ahead and decided to move forward with the interview process. I had a one on one discussion with the principal PM at Assurance. Conversation went well and they decided to move forward with the take home assessment. The take home assessment said it would take 4 -6 hours to complete. I finished the assessment over the weekend and submitted it to the team for review on a Monday. The next day, I received a generic decline. I asked the external recruiter if he could get feedback, he said but he would try but not guarantees. I personally reached out to the principal PM asking for some feedback as well, but I did not hear anything back. Maybe I just want to see the system change, but spending 4-6 hours to do a take home assessment to not even get 1-2 sentences of feedback seems a very crappy. Based off of the people Assurance is hiring, it looks like they want people with a fancy MBA, not product managers who can actually do a good job. I should have listened to the other 4 reviews, but they are all right. Stay away if you don't want to waste your time. Also.... I had my other PM friends look at my take home assessment and every single one of them agreed that my write up should have moved into the next round of interviews. The only feedback from my PM friends was that my suggested product was a little bit basic, but the question itself said to design a basic product. Save yourself the trouble, and stay away from Assurance.

The interview process had 4 steps: 1. Phone Screen with the Recruiter 2. Phone Screen with the hiring manager (in my case the Chief Growth Officer) 3. Take Home assignment (data analysis, basic product ideation) 4. Interview loop (engineer, product, marketing (CMO)