A total of 5 conversations. 1 with HR then 4 individual conversations that are ~45minutes each. The final step is a ~20 minute presentation to a panel (made up of the group you spoke with). The presentation will make/break whether you get an offer. They will ask you to spend no more than 1-2 hours prepping, but critique and expect more of you. They will say nothing will be saved, but later ask for a copy of the presentation. They will ask you to generalize and/or NOT share proprietary/NDA-protected information but later say your presentation wasn't detailed enough. For a smaller and largely unknown organization, they treat the process and candidates like they are a FAANG company. To my fellow PdM's, save yourself the time and the headache. Avoid Agero. Do not answer their LinkedIn messages. Do not provide them with free labor. Save the effort for an actual FAANG company.

The interview process took place over three months. They started with the typical recruiter phone screening, which was describing the company, the role and covering basic benefits/potential salary ranges. Next was an on-site interview, which took place over four hours with four different people. They got back to me about a week later to say that they didn't want to hire me for the position I was interviewing for, but they had another one in mind. So I had two follow-up screening calls with additional people, and then another on-site interview that took three hours. I got lots of positive feedback and the hiring manager reached out to me at one point to tell me that he thought I was great and that due to summer scheduling, he was hoping I could hang tight for "a few days" while they made their decision between me and one other candidate. After that, they disappeared. For a month. I reached out countless times to ask whether they had made a decision, and after multiple attempts each time would hear back from the recruiter who would say things like "not yet, but we had great feedback about you" only to disappear for ages again. After such a promising and involved start, they sure disappeared fast. I finally heard, almost 3 months to the day after the first interview, that they offered the position to someone else. I honestly wasn't surprised at that point, having been ghosted for a month, but was annoyed that I had wasted three months and many hours on a company that couldn't even be considerate enough to tell me "thanks but no thanks".

Half hour phone interview discussing work history and the company. Also dug into the team dynamics and where the PM team was headed in the future. The recruiter had referred me to the Director, but there was no response to my follow up.