Toptal Project Manager interview questions

An assignment that you're supposed to spend multiple days on with very little context, imagining all of the corporate nonsense involved in enterprise project management and making the most perfectest assignment that fully checks every corporate checkbox about contracting and projecting management. And if you don't tick every box they're looking for, they offer you the opportunity to spend another 10-20 hours on another assignment. Because hey, if you can't figure out how to have competent people on staff conducting interviews intelligently and getting their feedback, then of course you should just assume that your employees are incompetent and should make candidates submit 20 hours of free work about a 'fake' project that they can then objectively evaluate as including the bells and whistles you didn't ask them for but want to see or not!

The interview process appears thorough, but ultimately seemed to be more based on achieving a personal connection with your interviewer. Round 1 - 5 min screen - very easy Round 2 - online assessment Round 3 - 1 hour interview Round 4 - presentation requiring ~15 hours prep Rounds 1-3 were fine, nothing unexpected Round 4 you are asked to do a large amount of prep for a case study they provide. They recommend at least 15 hours of work. I put mine together and presented it back. I made some assumptions for the case study which the interviewer told me were not right and he became very fixated on this throughout the entire presentation. From my perspective, if I had made assumptions based on the info provided, I would expect some reflection from them on why their brief was unclear and. Ultimately an interview should try and and understand process, aptitude on the challenge and presentation / personal style. It seemed to me there was a right / wrong answer expected and the interviewer could not get past this. I received no feedback from my app (except a rejection email) and given they are asking candidates to put in so much time I found this rude and disrespectful to candidates. I would be cautious before applying and only do so if you have large amount of time to commit.