Similar to other experiences here. Recruiter sent a dataset and I made it to next round after submitting the take home ppt. I would recommend doing that as a learning experience. Got fairly positive feedback in the interview with hiring manager but they went radio silence for more than a week. I followed up and the recruiter said they are moving on with someone else. When I asked for feedback, he went radio silence again.

The recruiter first directly scheduled a phone call without asking for availability. The first sign of a negative culture in the company. They do not respect your time. The next step was a take-home challenge to analyze churn behavior. It was a monthly dataset of usage of each customer - They wanted to do exploratory analysis, clustering & build a predictive model to find the correlation. First - when you do such a detailed analysis - it takes a few hours to get to know the dataset - they said it will take only 4 hours to complete the assignment. Second - you get paid to do so much work if you are working for any company. In my current company, we categorize such project as very high effort & given 1 week time. I spent 10+ hours doing the assignment - sent a detailed analysis - and got a rejection. The company has unrealistic expectations from the candidates. Also, they did not even schedule a hiring manager/ screening interview prior to the take-home - You do not know anything about the team, yet you are expected to spend time doing an assignment for them.