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In 13 years I think I've taken only three. Each time I got the
impression that the interviewer really wasn't confident of his/her
interviewing skills and gave the test to make up for it.
Two of those times, I thought the tests were pretty lame, and I was
humiliated. One time, though, the interviewer was actually doing me a
favor. My former boss had told him I had terrible handwriting.
(Thank God for computers.) So I redlined a document for the
interviewer, he could read it, and I was hired.
