I’m trying to make sense of this hiring process and could use some outside perspective.

I’ve been interviewing for a Project Manager role for a few months now. Went through multiple rounds, was told I’m a top candidate and waited a month after my last interview and was invited to come onsite, met the team, tour of headquarters and everything has been positive so far.

Then at what feels like the very end of the process, they had me do all of this at once:

- Background check (completed last Friday morning and came back clean)

- Credit check (clean)

- Provided references (provided)

- And a Wonderlic assessment (Cognitive + Behavioral + Personality)….this is where I freaked out

These were all bundled together.

What’s throwing me off is that I always thought the Wonderlic was used early in the process to filter candidates not after a company has already invested this much time and money and gotten this far with someone.

Now I’m stuck overthinking:

Is the Wonderlic still a deciding factor this late?

Would a company really run all these checks and then reject someone based on that? Or is this more of an HR “final step”/checkbox situation? I haven’t received any negative feedback at all since they sent this Thursday and then everything cleared on Friday. It’s Monday now I’m just trying to read between the lines.

Has anyone experienced something like this where everything (including an assessment) was bundled at the very end? How much weight did it actually carry? Trying to stay logical here, but the timing of this is messing with me.