I had a brief phone screen with a recruiter. They did not ask me many questions about my education, experience, or what I was looking for in my next role. At the end of the call they said that they would like me to complete a "short exercise" to give them more insight into my quantitative skillset. They asked me to do this before having a single interview and without any guarantee that I would get an interview with after submitting the exercise. Upon reviewing the exercise, it was clear to me that this would not be a quick exercise. It was really a case study of >1 million rows of Hopper's real data that would take many, many hours to complete. I find it very suspicious to ask for such a big time commitment from an interviewee before even interviewing them to see if they would be a good fit. Based on my experience, it seems that Hopper is using this as an opportunity to get free consulting/analysis and is not seriously interested in hiring a senior analyst. In my opinion, this was a very sketchy and inappropriate tactic and I felt that I was being used.

1st Round with Hiring Manager It was cancelled twice and finally when she made it she was very late and rude during the whole interview. I was thinking to quit immediately after 1 minute.