Elsevier Account Executive interview experience

After the initial recruiter and manager conversations, the process shifted into tests and sales-style exercises. One part genuinely threw me off: I was asked to work live on Excel and email tasks for about two hours, and there was even a strange moment where they removed the role descriptions and asked me to recreate what the role included. It made the whole thing feel less like evaluation and more like a moving target.

Then the bar got even higher with role-play style components and a final sales pitch built from a case study they gave ahead of time. In the last step, I had to prepare