I had three phone interviews: an initial screening with an HR rep; an in-depth interview with a team leader (from out state, even though the position I was interviewing for was in the Chicago office?), and a Senior Research Manager in another office. In addition to learning as much about the position as possible, I also wanted to ask about several of the reviews I had read from former employees on Glassdoor about the excessive workload, poor work/life balance, and typical 60 hour work weeks. No one was able or willing to answer my questions directly. The HR rep says MetrixLab "strives" for work/life balance. (Companies "strive" for many things - profitability, satisfied clients, etc. This was a non-answer). The Team Leader suggested that people who have 60-hour workweeks probably "were not being as efficient as they could." (Thus shifting blame onto employees for excessive workloads). The Senior Research Manager suggested that "those people are ex-employees for a reason" (a rather snide and defensive non-response). I was told the next step would be to come in for a 4-hour in-person interview. Anyone with a current, full-time job cannot make such a time commitment. I did a gut-check and determined that a company this evasive and willing to engage in wage theft (which is what it is when you require employees to essentially work time and a half without compensating them fairly) but asks someone to commit basically an entire day to interviewing with them, is not worth my time and talents. I declined to continue with the interview process. If you are interviewing with this company, my advice is to ask very careful questions about the workload and time commitment this will require. Apparently, the company is growing fast through acquisition and is desperate to hire new employees to handle the workload, giving them reason to be evasive about lack of work/life balance.

A recruiter contacted me for this role while I wasn't actively looking. First I had a phone interview for a quick chat. After that I was invited for a face to face interview with my line manager and the research director and was then invited back for a second interview where I had to present a task (had to prepare a research deck). In the second interview I had to present the task back to two client directors and we talked about the contents of the job and the types of experiences I had to fit with this.