I applied for this job in mid May. I had my first interview with the People Operations Lead at the end of May. The phone screen went really fast (20 minutes or less) and they scheduled me for a follow-up during the call, which I thought was fantastic news! My second call was the first week of June with the Senior Product Designer who I had a very lovely time talking to. The third interview was at the end of June with the Senior Director of Product which went okay. I did move onto the next step in their process which was a take-home design challenge. I've been in design a few years and have heard the horror stories of uncompensated and laborious "design challenges" but this is the first time I was met with one. They state that it should take about 4-6 hours of work but in my opinion it would've taken days. They required market research, competitive analysis, journey mapping, style guide creation, several design iterations, and high fidelity wireframes or prototypes. After you did all this, you would present to a panel. If you got past that round, you would have a culture fit interview and then perhaps an offer. I did not complete the design challenge. I had already spent several hours interviewing with them and they had full access to my portfolio which includes 4 case studies. I was not comfortable committing hours and hours of my time for them to potentially say no anyway. I cannot tell you how disappointed I was to have to say no as this job seemed absolutely perfect for me. I wish they would reflect on these astronomical demands and respect their candidates more.