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In the nearly 30 years since I graduated from college, I have only been
asked to take a test for a job application once, in 1991 (for a position
as a manufacturing engineer). When I was finished with the interview,
I was told that I had completed the test in less time and with a higher
score than any candidate they had ever tested, but I didn't get the job.
So much for testing as a candidate screener. :)
As it turned out, it was probably a good thing, because a few years after
that they had an industrial accident that leveled the plant I would have
been working in. Maybe the object of the test was to screen out people
who would have been able to recognize how dangerous the place was...
> Being in the same area, I recognized the company at once. There's a lot of
> stories circulating about this company's process.
>
> Based on the people who have been filtered out by this process, I'd say that
> its main result has been to lose the company some promising people.
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