This was the weirdest interview process ever. It started fairly legit...their HR reached out me etc. They outsource their HR from Vermont though, so that was a little weird I was talking to someone who didn't know a lot about the actual job or company. But knowing it was a small company it made sense, and I figured at least they had HR. But then I had more and more calls to schedule my interview. HR started beating around the bush to ask without asking illegal questions. They’d say stuff to me like, "We have two locations, one in Utah and one in the DC area. One is better for families, one if you're single." Thankfully I was aware of what she was doing and did not let her know if I was married or had children. I should also mention I'm female. So moving forward, I was given a homework problem consisting of 3 datasets and asking to provide an analysis that involved combining them and finding a prediction or making a correlation. Then make a presentation. Open ended. At first I thought it was a fun project. It was supposed to be production data involving machines. But I couldn't even get the simplest correlation to work following basic logic. The data did not make any sense. I stayed up until 3 a.m. the night before the interview thinking I was going crazy. The next day I worked a full day at my current job and came home at 4 to take their interview via Skype. The whole day I struggled mentally. I was sure they had lied to me about what the data was as none of it made sense. I had a few theories about what the data actually was. Was it a haha gotcha problem? Or should I just play their game? I was exhausted with the late night and full day of work, but held it together for the never ending interview. My presentation took about a half hour. The technical aspect of it went well, and they liked what I had prepared using R. But at the end of the presentation, I let them know that I knew it wasn't manufacturing data. I told them what I thought it was, and they laughed hysterically, like Cruella deVil style. It went on for like 5 minutes. The rest of the interview was a bunch of behavioral questions..."Name a time where..." I was running out of stories to tell by the end of it and having to make stuff up, tbh. It was never gonna end. Then they asked me some weird questions like, "Name the funniest person at your current company." A bunch of really weird stuff. And they wanted to keep shooting the you know what. I think it lasted like an hour and half and it would've lasted longer if I hadn't cut it off. I wasn't going on much sleep and frankly I was stunned at their bro club behavior and fake homework problem. A couple of months later their HR left me a voicemail saying that they decided to hire a contractor instead. At that point I was long into a much better position at a legit company.