Occasionally I replay that day in my head and think about what if I had just taken the job. At the time, the company was fairly new, but it's a major insurance company today, so they obviously know what they're doing businesswise. My guess, with years of hindsight and experience, is that their intention was to pre-screen candidates based on compatibility metrics that they created. This makes sense considering it was an insurance company, so it's their tendency minimize risk (hiring the right employees) by objectively quantifying them using metrics.

However, in my opinion the interview process was perhaps well thought out but poorly executed and confused a lot of people. Perhaps there were not enough staff or consultants to conduct all the interviews and provide instruction. Taken out of context, that assessment exam made no sense. For example, I didn't know wether to interpret that omelet cooking question literally or colloquially.