I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Procter & Gamble (Saint Louis, MO) in Aug 2024
Interview
The first round involves hours of AI-reviewed assessments. Many of the questions lack context and make strong assumptions about the way the workplace functions. They seem to favor applicants with average intelligence and prior corporate experience. My application was rejected around 3AM on a Monday, so it was clear a human never reviewed it.
The first assessment covers personality and culture fit. It asks a series of multiple-choice questions about what you might do in specific scenarios. As someone with a career in small businesses, it was difficult to give meaningful answers to most of the corporate-workplace questions. Some questions used words or spellings that are only used in other countries, which have vastly different expectations about culture and work-life balance.
The second assessment covers elementary math, spatial logic, memory, and pattern recognition. For each problem type, they give you a brief tutorial, and then you solve as many problems as possible while a timer counts down. This part was easy for me, but I know many skilled engineers that would struggle.
Overall, I'm very disappointed in the lack of humanity in the process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
While on "holiday" you get an exciting new idea. How do you share it with the team?