I work in marketing and have been for years. I had a recruiter reach out to me on Linkedin asking if I would be interested in a quota bearing role selling Gartner to executives. Being a 'go with the flow' person I accepted an interview. First two rounds were very easy and a pleasant experience. Great people, great conversations, and they conducted interview prep between interviews. Collectively, I spent about 8 hours in this interview process between prep, notes, research, and interviews. I made it to the third and final round interview. The script was completely flipped. The recruiter was borderline rude, blunt, and brutally persistent. Which is fine. I understand wanting to know how someone would react under pressure. HOWEVER. I work in marketing. My experience is in marketing, and this recruiter had the audacity to sit there and in 'HR terms' basically say "all your experience is in marketing, why tf do you wanna work in sales for us." Meanwhile I sit there stammering because THEY RECRUITED ME. I didn't ask to work in this position. I am a very adaptable person and I have basic experience in sales areas by way of my job. I would happily learn their way of business and I'm confident I would succeed. But to sit there and basically demand that I have solely sales experience and then follow up with "what are you doing right now to improve your sales acumen" MEANWHILE I wasn't even job hunting. To no one's surprise I didn't get the job and I'm left here feeling like I walked into a final exam with an A in the class and walking out with a 20% on the exam. solely because the material I was given to study wasn't even what was on the test.