I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Publicis Sapient (Boston, MA)
Interview
1 phone interview with the recruiter
1 phone interview with someone on the Program Management team that got changed to someone new at the last minute (not very organzied)
1 in-person group interview for 5 hours including a sample project scoping and planning exercise - this was way too long and all I could think of was lunch by the time it was done. Everyone was late too which was annoying since I still had a job to get back to.
1 follow-up in-person with hiring manager who I thought was less than professional
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Lots of questions about giving examples of specific scenarios, tools and experience with PM methodologies; Questions that alluded to the shift from a company to an agency and the "work hard/play hard" mentality (immediately clued me into the lack of work life balance at this place).