I was connected with a recruiter in NY originally contacted for senior producer freelance opportunity. I expressed my goal of being FT and being in PDX. We stayed in touch and a producer role local in PDX opened up. My first interview was with a senior producer and the executive production director. All of the questions seemed pretty normal, I will say there was a lot of focus on budget, and whats the highest I've managed, and what do I do when there's scope creep or lots of different circumstances. It felt a little off given I wasn't interviewing for an account manager/director/senior producer role, typically a mid-level producer isn't solely in charge of million dollar budgets. I was brought it for a second time to meet with an executive producer, a producer who asked very similar budget questions. And some behavioral questions. Lastly I was given a case study that threw me for a pretty big loop and almost made me wonder if I applied to the right job. The case study was I had 30 minutes to create a advertising campaign for a marketing CEO at T-mobile who wanted to make the brand speak to a younger audience through a device launch. Then create a budget and timeline for it. I'm not a advertising campaign strategist so I felt pretty weird creating that. Then creating a budget and timeline felt even more weird.