Standard call with recruiter. Talked about role and company. Was told the next step was a round of a PHONE interviews. I even reached back out to the recruiter to confirm they were supposed to be PHONE calls because I thought it was strange. Showed up to the call and was told this was supposed to be a video call so we pivoted to that but since I was prepared to do a phone call I was thrown off and did poorly which was on me. Told the reciter this and he showed no remorse or empathy. Ended up getting a rejection letter I only assume because of this. Reached out to the recruiter again to see if he could he or the team could give any feedback and was ghosted. Very bad experience, mostly due to the recruiter.
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Normal software engineer questions. Databases, Javascript functionality,
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J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Elsevier en févr. 2026
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Began with a phonecall interview with a recruitment officer who was very nice! Mostly behavioral questions, asking about my personal academic and extracurricular activity as well as just general conversational topics. Second interview was with two interviewers over microsoft teams, pretty informal, some technical and some behavioral with a oral presentation at the end.
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Why are you applying to Elsevier/ What about the mission speaks to you?
There was a call with a recruiter where we discussed the company and my background and then a technical interview with a few engineers. They asked about my university experience and my expectations for the job.
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I think I had to find a palindromic year or something.
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 2 mois. J'ai passé un entretien chez Elsevier (Amsterdam) en août 2024
Entretien
Value your time! The interview process is super long and unprofessional. They make you do 3 online tests, 2 non-technical and 1 technical, that take hours to complete. After all the effort, they completely ghost you and don't respond at all. It was such a bad experience, and I definitely wouldn't recommend this unprofessional company to anyone.
They record your audio and video during the interview with the recruiter, and they only tell you at the end. Overall, it was a really bad experience.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
HR basic questions, why this company? salary? 3 online tests