The first couple of discussions I ha went well and the team seemed excited to move me quickly through the process. I was given a take-home assignment of creating a partner QBR through a dataset provided which took me four days to complete to ensure I fully understood the problem, conducted research, made informed recommendations, and also ensure I met all of the requirements. A partner QBR is a substantial amount of work to require of a candidate, and no time parameters were provided (e.g., this should take no more than 6 hours). I have learned my lesson to never give a week of unpaid work again and recommend they substantially reduce the requirements for job candidates, I only completed this as I was excited about the mission of the company. I presented to a panel which was largely a one-way discussion as I did not receive many questions. I did not get an offer and the feedback I received was that I did not have enough selling excitement which felt very vague. It is important to note that in my 8+ years of creating QBRs in Big Tech we never used them as a sales pitch but rather for more strategic discussions to influence decisions.
