Elsevier·Software Engineer

Elsevier Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

United StatesPosted Aug 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a standard recruiter call where we talked about the role and company, and I was told the next step would be a round of phone interviews.

I even reached back out to confirm, because I thought it was strange that the next interviews were supposed to be on the phone.

When I joined the call, I was told it was actually meant to be a video interview, and the pivot threw me off. I ended up performing poorly, which I owned. What I didn’t expect was the lack of empathy from the recruiter afterward. I received a rejection letter, and when I asked for feedback, I was ghosted.

That whole experience stuck with me because the issue wasn’t just the interview itself—it was the recruiter’s handling of the situation and the total absence of

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