I have never seen "software" abbreviated to SW before. Let's not do that.
It's very common. Ever hear of SWE or SWET? Based on the context of this site, what did you think they were applying for?
I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take a personality test
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Re: I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take a personality test
#12I once had a SW interview with a job that had a 2-hour long personality test. No tech questions. Just random questions to test my personality. It started out simple, like 'what was the last book you read' to more in-depth situations that had nothing to do with the job. The manager interviewing me (who admit he basically just started managing a month prior) told me he just read a 'great book on management' and wanted…
This has been my experience as well. The more hoops a company made me jump through the less they were offering to begin with, and the culture was not great.
My last gig was great in that aspect. My client found my LinkedIn, we had a quick 15 minute call to discuss the project and I was working for them the next day.
Re: I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take a personality test
#13My weirdest experience is still the one where 6 people in a room have me go through my entire education starting with grade school.
For a senior SWE role. Even the body shop recruiter was agast.
Re: I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take a personality test
#14I have never seen "software" abbreviated to SW before. Let's not do that.
Wait till you see HW (hardware) and FW (firmware).
People who regularly have to work with a mixture of these will abbreviate them. You'll see them everywhere now.
Re: I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take a personality test
#15I once had a SW interview with a job that had a 2-hour long personality test. No tech questions. Just random questions to test my personality. It started out simple, like 'what was the last book you read' to more in-depth situations that had nothing to do with the job. The manager interviewing me (who admit he basically just started managing a month prior) told me he just read a 'great book on management' and wanted…
Every job/client I've acquired has been a 10-15min informal chat with a stakeholder and a technical peer, and then an offer. I don't really see the value in going through hiring gauntlets and opt out of any process that looks like it might waste time like that.
Interviews are for weeding out poor candidates; what you have left are the good ones. Weeding out poor candidates is not possible with 10-15 minutes informal chats.
Re: I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take a personality test
#16Job interviews should be about fit in the team and projects - not tests and ridiculous whiteboards where you start solving their problems for free...
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#17Dang. This corporate nonsense at it's best.
Personality test are completely bogus.
Marston's was a master con and even expressed it in later life.
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#18I received a three question geometry quiz inside of a google form as a screening for a backend nodejs a couple weeks ago. Apparently it was critical for the role that I know the relationship between the circumference and the radius of a circle.
Re: I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take a personality test
#19I once had a SW interview with a job that had a 2-hour long personality test. No tech questions. Just random questions to test my personality. It started out simple, like 'what was the last book you read' to more in-depth situations that had nothing to do with the job. The manager interviewing me (who admit he basically just started managing a month prior) told me he just read a 'great book on management' and wanted…
> I passed the first interview, but the second was going to be a 5-hour remote codeshare/whiteboard interview with the team. I declined the second interview.
Last year I interviewed for MongoDB. They proudly boasted that their hiring process consisted of a 7 interview marathon. I asked if that wasn't too many interviews, and the interviewer boasted that they already managed to streamline their process down from 12 interviews.
They also proceeded to point out that all FANGs follow the same process, except they really don't.
I respectfully dropped from the hiring process there and then. The extremes to which they take their cargo cult mentality is out of this world.
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#20Glad to see feedback from real users. My company was pitched by Paradox [1] to use their chatbot and this bizarre questionnaire to hire SW.
Their solution target mostly McDonalds workers and other bluecollar, where I believe it's "okeish to put human beings thru the mud first".
They claim [2] there is science behind it, but me and my partner's feedback was it will never work for IT workers.
[1] - https://www.traitify.com/ [2] - https://www.traitify.com/science