Be very aware of the time commitment required. There are at least 3 interviews with people who are not your direct manager, and arguably not decision makers in the process, before you get an assignment that takes 6 hours to complete. After that, you get to “role play” the presentation to a manager and director pretending to be the customer for another hour. This is your first experience talking to a superior, and ultimate decision maker, though it’s unclear. The first contact with the recruiter is great, normal. The second interview is with a peer who walks through your work history. The third is a real interview which is scenario-based and very reasonable. A reasonable final step here would be to have you talk to your direct supervisor and do a normal interview. Instead there is another 6 hour time commitment in the form of a fake RFP response followed by the role playing presentation mentioned above. The scenario itself is impossible to do successfully per the customer asks, so to be successful you have to navigate how you handle that. My advice to TheoremOne is to get rid of the RFP assignment and interview the candidate properly and ensure the candidate actually talks to the hiring manager. If you don’t get the job, you’ve wasted 10+ hours of your time with very little feedback. If you get it, you’re going in very uninformed as to who you’re actually working for.