Submitted my resume, cover letter, and writing sample online (no referral). After a few weeks, got notice to do the IQ test, and then received a phone interview request. Phone interview went very well - recruiter is great. Next step was research paper. I worked very hard on this and just a few hours after submitting it, received a final-round interview request. For the final-round, I was told that I would have two one-on-one interviews, and that I would meet the recruiter on-site as well. However, my first interview was a panel instead. Lots of weird "gotcha" questions during both interviews. The second interviewer described the role in such a terrible way that I decided that there was no way I would accept an offer (working 7 days a week, churning out 25 pg reports in 5 days, no real manager/oversight for junior employees, no collaboration, no sense of impact, salary significantly lower than what I make). My impression was that there is very high turnover in this role so they want people to be prepared. At the end of the interview, the interviewer just pointed me towards the door on the way back to his office, and I left. Felt very haphazard.