When I was going to interviews, before I landed here.... I did have to do tests with some companies...I had also endured meetings after meetings after meetings (so I guess I was ready when it happened for this job)....since I had interviewed with both Yahoo Mail and Google (twice)
One company had allocated several hours for a C programming test, I wrote a nicely formatted and well documented program in 30 minutes. They didn't know what to do with me until the next scheduled item. In the awkward moment, somebody mentioned that the whole company was relocating out to the middle of nowhere soon. That wasn't going to work for me. So, I turned down the offer when it came. I was coming from a company that started out as a building in the middle of a corn field...where I had only set foot in a grocery store once in the whole 8 years that I lived there. Wanting somewhere a bit more civilized(?) was why I indicated I was open to relocation on my own to any suitable opportunity. I also remember they had those web sites that they kept sending me to take C, Unix, Perl tests. I never seemed to hear much more back from those companies...but the company that wrote those tests had contacted me, because I scored 100% on the (C & Unix) tests and wanted input on making them harder. Though since I had taken the tests at the request of some head hunter or employer, and not paid to take the test myself...I couldn't get any record that I had scored that high. I heard somebody say they were told they had scored a 00 on test once, because its only a 2 digit field for the score. Made me wonder if that happened to me somewhere.... ----- Original Message ----- > I guess the testing issue in affirmative action is something new. > Before > I landed her (14+ years ago) I was on the interview circuit and one > job > I had to take two tests. The tester didn't think I answered all the > questions because I got done too soon. The test was a joke, almost > what > you would give a kid in Junior High. By the end of the test I had > decided I wasn't going to take any offer from them so I spent the > interview time playing with the interviewer. He never caught on. But > it > was fun and took the edge off the 45 minute ride to get to the place. > > > > John J. Boris, Sr. > > "Remember! That light at the end of the tunnel > Just might be the headlight of an oncoming train!" > > > >>> "Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng." <[email protected]> 3/7/2012 2:32 PM >>> > I found out that its the office of affirmative action that says we > can't test candidates... > > Had noticed lately that the few approved 'technical' questions, were > more of to gauge a person's problem solving mindset than whether he > actually knows stuff. And, the rest are about the person's > personality > and fit.... > > -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Administrator For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally Snail: Computing and Telecommunications Services (CTS) Kansas State University, 109 East Stadium, Manhattan, KS 66506-3102 Phone: (785) 532-4916 - Fax: (785) 532-3515 - Email: [email protected] Web: http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~lkchen - Where: 11 Hale Library _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
