Psychometric assesssments, eh?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychometrics
> such measurements are often misused by laymen, such as with personality tests used in employment procedures.
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#12They're likely lamenting how hard it is to find great people.
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#13Personally I'd prefer to fill this out than have someone try to interview me and scribble some notes down that I later get evaluated on. I'm a good writer but I'm not the best extemporaneous orator.
Of course if it's this and then 14 hours of interviews (looking at you, Plaid), then it's a different story.
EDIT: for these kind of numbers? no way: https://www.levels.fyi/company/Canonical/salaries/Software-E...
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#14> The bulls*t Canonical wants you to jump through before they will give
Can the title be updated with the other half of the sentence?
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#15OP- Thank you for linking to the less user-hostile "old" reddit portal.
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#16Though I think they should offer salary ranges (it's a legal requirement several places and is also just good practice), asking people to fill out essay questions seems...totally fine?
If you want to build an engineering culture which has writing as a core skill, this seems like a really good filter.
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#17I jumped through their hoops once, only to be told that they prefer to hire active contributors from the community. No unpaid internship, no job.
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#18Sounds like their application process works. If someone is unwilling to fill out a basic questionnaire they are probably aren't a good candidate. The questions seem reasonable and they aren't asking for you to write a book for each one.
I ain't writing a fairly-long essay that includes a ton about what I did in high school(?!), for a chance at a job, unless the comp is insane.
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#19Though I think they should offer salary ranges (it's a legal requirement several places and is also just good practice), asking people to fill out essay questions seems...totally fine? If you want to build an engineering culture which has writing as a core skill, this seems like a really good filter.
Essay questions are fine. Their psychometric assessment is a personality test and a fast-twitch "intelligence" test. Unless the job involves quickly rotating shapes in your head, I fail to see the point.
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#20I posted this on the Reddit thread too but:
Yeah I was through 4 or 5 “steps” before salary was discussed. And I ultimately think that’s why they didn’t move forward.
Lesson learned. I wasted quite a bit of applying, doing an initial interview, a second interview with a teammate, doing weird aptitude tests that had me comparing images, a personality test, a coding test while a manager watched, and finally talking to an hr person about salary requirements.