McDonald's Making Job Applicants Take Weird AI Personality Tests
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#2Ah, the blue people test. There's a company thats selling these personality tests to large companies.
Any job that requires that you be an obedient little robot will require that you take such a personality test.
Re: McDonald's Making Job Applicants Take Weird AI Personality Tests
#3Ah, the blue people test. There's a company thats selling these personality tests to large companies. Any job that requires that you be an obedient little robot will require that you take such a personality test.
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Re: McDonald's Making Job Applicants Take Weird AI Personality Tests
#4Ah, the blue people test. There's a company thats selling these personality tests to large companies. Any job that requires that you be an obedient little robot will require that you take such a personality test.
It's bad enough many companies want to run invasive background checks (up to and including pulling your credit) for milquetoast low-paying-entry-level jobs now they want people to take some bastardized version of Myers–Briggs which itself is pseudoscience?
I sorta understand a company wanting to do that for some C-level or upper management position, or for a finance person responsible for the books...but for a burger flipper???
Re: McDonald's Making Job Applicants Take Weird AI Personality Tests
#5Ah, the blue people test. There's a company thats selling these personality tests to large companies. Any job that requires that you be an obedient little robot will require that you take such a personality test.
Do you know the name of the company/other references about this test?
Re: McDonald's Making Job Applicants Take Weird AI Personality Tests
#6Someone really needs to test how these “personality tests” are actually “testing” people. This feels very much like “let’s launder bias by using ‘algorithms’ that do the discrimination because they’re trained on existing bias”
Re: McDonald's Making Job Applicants Take Weird AI Personality Tests
#7> Paradox's "Traitify" product, which uses the strange slides to lump applicants into "Big Five" or "OCEAN" personality groups, rating them on how open, conscientious, extraverted, agreeable, and neurotic they are.
For the record, the correct answer is always to be low on neuroticism and high on everything else. The role doesn’t matter; that is always the “ideal” personality and any deviation is a defect that will only be tolerated if they are having trouble filling the role.
Re: McDonald's Making Job Applicants Take Weird AI Personality Tests
#8Ah, the blue people test. There's a company thats selling these personality tests to large companies. Any job that requires that you be an obedient little robot will require that you take such a personality test.
It's bad enough many companies want to run invasive background checks (up to and including pulling your credit) for milquetoast low-paying-entry-level jobs now they want people to take some bastardized version of Myers–Briggs which itself is pseudoscience? I sorta understand a company wanting to do that for some C-level or upper management position, or for a finance person responsible for the books...but for a burger…
those with the least ability to say NO will be the targets at first. Similar case with PTSD veterans, incarcerated individuals, those alone at the end of their lives, some family law situations etc.. IMO there is literally no bottom to this, and it can and does require real legislation.
Re: McDonald's Making Job Applicants Take Weird AI Personality Tests
#9Ah, the blue people test. There's a company thats selling these personality tests to large companies. Any job that requires that you be an obedient little robot will require that you take such a personality test.
Do you know the name of the company/other references about this test?
The company is mentioned in the article.
> The aforementioned companies are all contracted with Paradox.ai, a "conversational recruiting software" company ...
Re: McDonald's Making Job Applicants Take Weird AI Personality Tests
#10> Paradox's "Traitify" product, which uses the strange slides to lump applicants into "Big Five" or "OCEAN" personality groups, rating them on how open, conscientious, extraverted, agreeable, and neurotic they are. For the record, the correct answer is always to be low on neuroticism and high on everything else. The role doesn’t matter; that is always the “ideal” personality and any deviation is a defect that will on…
Many years ago, barely out of high school, I took a test for a temporary warehouse stock picking job. The test was primarily concerned with the applicants' attitude to authority and violence. Oh, and theft, of course. Many questions were repetitive, and used slight variation in wording or reversed meaning to ask the same things over and over again.
So, on a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you agree with these statements? Sometimes it is ok to hit people. I feel like hitting my boss sometimes. Some people deserve to be punched. Sometimes is is necessary to use violence to solve a problem. Taking pens from work isn't really stealing. Etc.
I suppose they must've managed to screen out at least some of the people who are not very smart and prone to violence and theft.