Security Benefit Group interview questions

Interview process — recruiter, peer PM, live product sense, hiring manager, executive closer. Heard that the company overall is undergoing an “agile transformation” from an old-fashioned financial company to something like a fintech. However, it’s clear even from the interviews that this transition is very painful and there is a lot of “bias for inaction.” They say they want to be more agile and “startup-like.” But the people that they hire (even on the PM/tech side) are full of people who have been in traditional financial (not fintech) roles for YEARS. They are so afraid of hiring the "scrappy entrepreneur" that they even avoid a normal person with mid-stage startup experience who could actually be a good fit for them.

Got contacted by a recruiter. He did a great job of getting me to interview. I normally wouldn't interview with a benefits company as the work is incredibly boring but he was persistent. Interview was with the Principal Data Scientist and Director of Analytics. Weird vibe, odd questions, they both seemed very inexperienced in both Data Science and interviewing. The tools and stack seemed questionable and it was overall a pretty poor experience. Pretty much a waste of my time, and I withdrew after thinking about the interview and their demeanor and answers to my questions about their practice. Would not recommend.