This was an extraordinarily labor intensive process, and it ultimately ended in the team deciding to cancel the role after all 7 of the interviews were finished. I’m not typically one to write on Glassdoor, but I’m taking the time to write this because I hope someone at Intuit reads it, thinks honestly about it, and steps up to prevent an outcome like mine for future candidates during a time where the market is already extremely difficult. The craft exercise and presentation prep was 3 weeks of work including nights and weekends. And before you leap to say “you shouldn’t have put that much time into it”, I urge you to take a closer look at the prompts you’re sending candidates and also the guidance your recruiters are giving. The prompt I was given asked for a hiring demand forecast, a capacity model, scenario modeling, prioritization and pipeline strategy analytics, hypotheses, risks, tradeoffs, recommendations, the list goes on. As someone who has worked in analytics for a decade and done many interviews - this was an extraordinarily large analytics ask for a case. To prep for the presentation on it, my recruiter’s instructions during our prep call were (pasting from my notes): “This is your shot” and “you need to drill this into your bones,” bullet pointing everything out and “studying with flash cards.” “Run the presentation through multiple times and time yourself.” “Make sure you have everything straight, concise, and timed out to fit within but not go over the 1 hour mark.” Then for the values interviews - “study the website on Intuit’s values and prep to speak to 3-4 stories where you’ve demonstrated each.” This isn’t at all to criticize the recruiter - I thought she was great and relayed clearly what needed to be done to be successful. It’s to tell you objectively as someone who just followed this set of instructions, it was 21 days of work. And there was no job to be won on the other side of it. Do you honestly think that’s acceptable? I understand that circumstances outside the immediate control of the recruiting team may have been at play here, but I have to think with as many smart people as you have working at Intuit - you’re capable of working together to fix whatever internal dynamics led to this. It’s beyond disrespectful and exploitative of candidates to ask this much if you’re uncertain about your hiring plan.