Elsevier·Software Engineer

Elsevier Software Engineer interview experience

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Medway, OHPosted Aug 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The first thing that threw me off with Elsevier was the assessment style.

I was asked to take an online “programmer assessment,” but after seeing the content, it didn’t look like programming at all. Instead of code-related questions, it focused on pattern matching, word analogies, interpreting poetry, and math problems up through algebra.

It felt so mismatched that I wondered if I had been sent the wrong test. Then I convinced myself it might be some kind of trick designed to measure something non-obvious, and I even gave feedback on the assessment the way they seemed to want. I was contacted the next day to say I wouldn’t be considered further.

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