I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Planned Parenthood Direct in Jan 2025
Interview
20 minutes into a phone call with a recruiter, she shared the next steps in the process: a “take home exercise” to be delivered via email BEFORE any interviews. I asked if I could first meet with the hiring manager or someone on the team to make sure it’s the right fit before dedicating time to the presentation, to which she said she’d follow up. When she did, she relayed the hiring manager (and CEO) wasn’t willing to meet beforehand.
I understand needing to see someone’s critical thinkinh skills in action. Heck, I do this as part of my hiring process too. What I don’t understand is an unwillingness to get to know someone on a human level before asking them to take time away from their jobs, families and lives to help you solve a (likely very real) scenario.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Planned Parenthood Direct in Oct 2024
Interview
I applied online and they reached out asking for free work before the initial interview. They said the ask should take 45 minutes but it was actually a week of work. I dropped out.
Here is the ask =
Objective:
a. Develop a high-level marketing plan that outlines how you would acquire, engage, and retain new patients for this service, leveraging both B2C (patient acquisition and engagement) and B2B (PP affiliate
engagement) strategies.
b. Assume your high-level goal is to drive 100,000 new telehealth consultations for birth control in 2025 while keeping marketing costs steady and driving strong refill rates.
2. Key Deliverables:
a. Strategic Approach: Outline your approach to creating brand awareness, driving patient acquisition, and fostering engagement and retention for this new service.
b. Data-Driven Decisions: Describe two specific KPIs or metrics you would prioritize to measure the success of this marketing campaign and explain why.
c. B2B Strategy: Describe how you would engage Planned Parenthood affiliates to promote and adopt this service within their regions. Outline one co-marketing opportunity you would suggest.
d. Communications: Write a short (3-5 sentences) email to Planned Parenthood affiliates introducing the service and how it benefits their patients.
3. Bonus Question (Optional, if time allows):
a. PPD’s marketing budget is limited. Propose one low-cost experiment you would run to test patient engagement or acquisition for the telehealth service. Describe what you would test, how you would execute it, and what data you’d use to make decisions on scaling it.
I applied online. I interviewed at Planned Parenthood Direct
Interview
Initial interview but not necessarily a phone screening. The interviewer was not in talent, HR, or the hiring manager. I’m still unsure as to how their position was related to the role I applied for. Interviewer was friendly, but was late, eating on the call, admitted that they were multitasking (very clearly responding to emails and messages), and seemed like they had little experience interviewing candidates (read off a script, not organic conversation). They must’ve shared the zoom link for my interview in another invite because a random person showed up on the zoom call about 20 mins in. Overall, the interviewer was scattered and the immediate needs in the role indicated that the company was very unorganized.
