Yes, I went through this too, dumbest interview process ever but it had the positive result to make me look into how dumb a company canonical is and start using debian rather than Ubuntu. I call it a hard fought win

Whaaat...no matter the sale, I'd just go and leave with those abysmal requests. And I complained back in the day that an application had to include so much personal data already 😁

Canonical's hiring process is wild. The number of stages is a deal breaker in itself, but the bizarre questions and the tests you mentioned don't do them any favors either.

I lost interest in the first stage with them asking for an essay about things like what kind of student I was in high school. The full email was massive.

I think theirs is the only company I've seen ask for a GPA on the initial application. I've been out of school so long I don't even remember, nor did I particularly care since the knowledge was the actual point.

Yeah, at best, that would result in a whole lot of "I didn't dream last night" from me.

Okay, so there is this big aspartagus, now it's a moving reckless 8mm european slider from a german window that can open in many ways. One way comes and absorbs itself without any blue ingredients except light pickles that were brought into ransom from andorra in 1800 and 1800BC, the small spring is a irish chair is conscious, it feels warmth.

LLMs are good for something: wasting the time of people who are wasting your time.

"I find beauty in silence." "Poetic but that's not really..." "Would you like to be beautiful?"

Companies really like to spend money on the most BS of things; anything other than giving their employees a raise lol

I can see the safety aspect. My wife has no spatial awareness. Almost every night or morning she is (while fully awake) turning over or stretching and smashing everything off of her night table.

Or if we are cuddled watching a show and she goes to scratch her nose she doesn't take into account where her arm my be in the embrace, or has even smashed me in the bottom jaw and clacked my teeth together trying to find her nose.

I would not want her anywhere near moving or fixed machinery, for her own safety and the company's "n days since accident" sign

I am legitimately struggling to figure out what grad school field has a spatial reasoning test. Civil engineering? Physical therapy?

American (CA) engineer here, I had to take one of these for a job I ended up getting in 2012. It was for a big company too! They might argue that cognitive ability is directly related to engineering.

I actually do have a cognitive disability, ADHD. But I'm like a one-legged stripper... It might seem counterintuitive, but just watch me dance for a minute and then it will make sense.

I took a “personality” test in 2007 for my first job (union btw). Some pretty obvious basic questions that I imagine only a selfish sociopath would fail but maybe that helped filter at the time.

I don't know they still find ways to sneak them in. I took a "logic" test as part of an application recently for a job with the government. The questions weren't related to anything I would be doing. It definitely felt l like they were trying to suss out intelligence.

I dislike organizational psychologists. The whole field. Every time a problematic hr department does something problematic using 'researched methods', the researchers all cry foul and say 'that's not how you're supposed to implement <policy/test>!' But do you not see your own role in legitimizing this behavior? All the research into how to run a happier bee colony is going to be used to justify mistreatment and discrimination by bad actors. Every test and every policy can be maligned, and providing citations just makes that easier. The research field is itself a tool for maintaining capital.

This is literally illegal where I live. There's a few exceptions like airline pilot, police or firefighter, but besides that it's considered discrimination.

Selection is hard

It's not that hard. People in your field just make up a bunch of shit that over complicates it and gets in the way to justify their existence. Anyone halfway decent at hiring can interview a candidate and have a decent idea of if they're a good fit or not.

the one I’m most familiar with on the commercial market is by wonderlic

This test says I'm going to be a stellar quarterback.