Cengage·Account Executive

Cengage Account Executive interview experience

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Medium

Positive

New York, NYPosted Dec 2013 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a phone interview with the hiring manager, and it quickly moved into an in-person interview.

It felt fairly thorough and more formal than I expected—like they wanted to see me in different settings, not just do one screening call.

After the in-person conversations, I had to prepare and deliver a presentation. From what I experienced, the presentation was a real gating step, not something casual. Then I moved on to a final interview with an area manager, which made the end feel like a higher-level review of how I could perform and present in a sales role.

Even though it landed as an “average” difficulty overall for me, it was still a lengthy sequence: two initial interviews, the

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