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0 pointsdanenania13y ago0 comments

No one here is objecting to being tested and challenged. People just want to be tested on how well they can actually perform the job and build solid products, not how well they can memorize algorithm implementations. It's like screening Marines based on whether they can build a rifle by hand. It's a cool skill and could be useful in some ways, but it's not the job.

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Tloewald13y ago· 1 in thread

Hiring is a two way process. They're looking for employees, and you're looking for a salary, colleagues, boss, etc. A company that fucks up an interview fails.

My toughest interview process involved driving 200 miles to spend a day doing psychological tests (after my interview). I got the job. Really, the hirer failed the interview, but I wanted out of my current job. Whose fault was that? Turned out to be a great job (my boss told me that he looked at my portfolio and CV and simply said "hire that guy" — the process was hoop jumping.

tekromancr13y ago

I have lost jobs based on those bullshit, pseudo-scientific psych tests. Some of them are straight out of the back of an issue of Cosmo. If I was a moral-less dirtbag I would still have scruples about trying to sell a company on personality tests as part of an interview process.

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