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Interviews these days (thelemmy.club)
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[-] kepix@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

making sure you cannot solve it, so you are perfect for the job

[-] PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works 32 points 3 months ago

Possible candidate responses:

  1. Solves it (too smart for job)
  2. "That's bullshit, who needs this for a $14.50/hr job?" (too intolerant of bullshit for job)
  3. Tries to solve it but fails (lacks self-awareness for job)
  4. Knows they can't solve it so doesn't even try (too lazy for job)
  5. Doesn't understand the question/comprehend what a hypercube is (too dumb for job)
[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

Maybe they're trying to weed out all actual applicants because they're hiring the boss' kid.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 14 points 3 months ago

You forgot option 6, spew a bunch of techno bubble at the HR person who will definitely not understand the problem themselves and wouldn't be able to tell if you'd answered it or not.

[-] Signtist@bookwyr.me 11 points 3 months ago

That's just response 1 from the perspective of the HR person scoring it.

[-] plz1@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

I'd argue that 3 and 5 are actually selection qualities for a job paying that low, with a question like that. The rest are all dis-qualifiers of course.

[-] mirshafie@europe.pub 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I believe this is sometimes the case. I was called for an interview with a group of 15 other people ones. We were like a class, being interviewed as a group, and were supposed to solve some problems together. Nobody in that group could solve even the simple, obvious problems - we're talking basic math and reading comprehension here. Got an email the next day informing me that they had I had not been selected for recruitment.

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