Costar Group Account Executive interview experience

The last step was a 30-minute sales demo, and everything felt fairly formal—there was even an explicit expectation that I wear a suit on camera.

The questions were pretty standard and, honestly, a bit cliché. What made it frustrating was that they kept trying to map my past sales experience onto what they assumed was a typical inside-sales motion, but the way I’d sold before wasn’t the same. I ended up spending more time trying to get them to understand my sales process than focusing on the demo itself. The demo itself felt much easier than the earlier back-and-forth, and I definitely