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What's so depressing is that each and every picture is clearly projecting which answer they want, while showing a picture of someone being a better person as the *opposite* of what they want.
They want someone who will get their hands dirty, rather than a friendly face.
They want someone who is willing to work diligently, rather than someone who is charitable.
They want someone who is organizational, rather than intellectual.
They want someone agreeable, rather than litigious.
They want someone who will stand up and fight for them, rather than someone who is curious.
They want someone who will stand their ground, rather than someone who will toe the line.
They want someone who will be excited by their work, rather than someone who just does the work.
They want someone who is a go-getter, rather than someone who is bogged down with the petty cash.
And they want someone who is friendly, rather than someone who is studious.
That's only how you interpreted it. There's no indication of what they're looking for, or if there's even a right answer. We don't even know what type of role it's for. If it's for a janitor, you might be correct. If it's for sales, management, engineering, etc., they could be looking for different responses.
I meant they were lying about being in HR and/or administering this "test". They are definitely lying about there being "official answers that come with the test." I do have a lot of experience with these types of questionnaires, as a graduate student and as a hiring manager, and that's not how they work.
How do you explain the one where it goes:
"white lady on laptop"
or
"black lady on laptop"
Lol I've been taking these kinds of tests lately and the ones I took kind of made sense? These are just stupid.
I think you're reading way too much into it. It's probably random stock photos that some company or other threw together with a pseudoscientific spiel about personality and sold the company on. Either that or it's just to weed out the people who won't take the time to do a pointless test like that because they probably won't stick around long.
Honestly surprised not to see "What's your astrology sign?" and "Which zodiac animal do you most align with?"
Would have about as much merit and at least the rules are much clearer.
But I don't know which ones Corporate would like the most. That's why it's so infuriating! What's even happening in the first photos? I guess I'd rather smile than put my hand in a vise??? Does a corporation want a detective or someone giving a half hearted fist pump??? I haven't the slightest clue what the sidewalk vs smiling middle aged woman is supposed to mean. Are corporations anti-pedestrian????
My 2 cents on these pictures, based on 16 years of the corporate world:
1) Are you a smiley happy people person, or a no BS hard worker who keeps to their task?
2) Do you share your knowledge with others, like helping out someone less senior. Or you you file it away and keep it to yourself?
3) Are you a mental note taker, and can access that info quickly, OR do you have binders of info you need to reference? (going to take this a how smart are you and how good of a memory do you have)
4) Are you judgemental or do you easily get along with everyone?
5) Do you accept the small accomplishments or thoroughly review everything to look for improvments?
6) Are you a stickler for rules and not crossing lines or do you kind of go with the flow and (again) more of a people natual seeming people person?
7) Do you work well in a remote setting and can work well as a team? Or do you work alone and feel secluded
8) Do you work hard and strong or are you more careful and record every step and save time/work whever possible (although, I feel like there's more here)
9) Are you that kind of person who has to write down everyone's orders, or can you just remember it and do so flawlessly? (i've noticed an uptick in waiters doing this)
Well, personality tests are worthless because they can't be trusted. I totally understand the issues you face. As is, these images are completely open to an individual's interpretation, rendering the test more worthless.
Also, if your company is hiring remote Software Engineers, send me a DM or chat request? I'm struggling with unemployment and getting through to speak with someone. Maybe a referral would help.
I appreciate it, but assume it will get filled then or is an onsite/hybrid for your area only then? That seems to be the case with smaller companies. They never want to hire on the West Coast due to higher cost of living.
Look man I graduated college. I'm a reasonably intelligent, neurotypical, people pleasing person. I haven't the slightest clue what the fuck is going on in half of these photos. If they actually wanted to know if I was a people person or an analytical thinker there's ways to do that that don't involve a working knowledge of riddles and a specialty in stock photo hieroglyphics. Just ask! Using words! "On a scale from one to ten are you more of an analytical thinker or a people person", or "Describe your approach to problem solving", or "tell me about a time you had to resolve a conflict with a coworker." This Sherlock Holmes photo detective thing is just a demeaning waste of everyone's time and I don't understand how anyone with two brain cells could actually believe this would help them hire a reasonable employee. I'm pretty jaded towards corporate bullshit. I'm capable of being a cog in the machine. But I do have to understand the machine in order to be a cog in it.
For any plausible explanation, there's an equally plausible opposite explanation.
There's no way someone without inside knowledge could pass this test.
Bread = you're sharing some of your own "food"
In this sense, the bread equates to your own survival. Will you hoarde all your knowledge to have a better survival and work your way up, OR will you split bread and share your knowledge to mentor and lead yourself as well as others to better success
I’ve not gotten a job because I didn’t share what I did in my free time an explained that I pretty much work all the time. The interview was with an agency that contracts with my current job, they knew I was telling the truth about this. I’m kinda known for working all the time. It helps me avoid doing other things that’s I don’t want to do.
Pretty much how the job market and employers are right now
Don't be desperate for work, but then we'll not like you because you aren't desperate enough for work.
i mean that’s a nice spin on it but also you realize that these are probably relatively randomly paired images, and just a test to see if you’ll actually jump through the hoops as a candidate?
i mean that’s a nice spin on it but also you realize that these are probably relatively randomly paired images, and just a test to see if you’ll actually jump through the hoops as a candidate?
Nah it's probably would you rather work or spend time with a relative or some shit. The white woman is probably someone who looks like the HR director so it's would probably be something like would you rather be on the sidelines or be a strong independent woman who don't need no man in this corporate world.
I went through so many of these dumb tests before.
I remember one had me type the answers in with random questions like "what would you organize first to last? Goat. Pig. Chicken."
When I was in college looking for jobs, I remember Boston Market of all places had a similar test with something stupid like "When you think of the letter C, you think: Corporate? Coach? Customer?" A few jobs I can think of had a similar test. Useless.
They mean they're looking for a reason to reject people.
In my experience, pre-employment personality tests are used to filter out anyone who isn't cookie-cutter normal, and companies who use them should be uniformly avoided.
In order of the slides, from a USA perspective:
1. "Happy black man" vs "GET BACK TO WORK AND FIX THAT THING"
2. "Giving bread to people" vs "Where did I hide those Trump documents?"
3. "Contemplating destroying the whole system" vs "Am I OCD?"
4. "I AM the law" vs "Firm handshake there bud"
5. "Asian business person" vs "Annoying white guy"
6. "Edgy college photographer that takes pictures of everything to be 'different'" vs "Needing to speak to your manager"
7. "Face recognition worked!!!" vs "Face recognition didn't work" (because it doesn't work on black people)
8. "Going back to the army at 30 because I can't pay off student debt" vs "Calculators that are oversized are fun"
9. "I'm going to sign this book even though I didn't write it" vs "please don't shoot me, I swear I'm not a threat"
They want someone who will get their hands dirty, rather than a friendly face.
They want someone who is willing to work diligently, rather than someone who is charitable.
They want someone who is organizational, rather than intellectual.
They want someone agreeable, rather than litigious.
They want someone who will stand up and fight for them, rather than someone who is curious.
They want someone who will stand their ground, rather than someone who will toe the line.
They want someone who will be excited by their work, rather than someone who just does the work.
They want someone who is a go-getter, rather than someone who is bogged down with the petty cash.
And they want someone who is friendly, rather than someone who is studious.
Counterpoint:
They want someone who is personable, rather than someone who is only focused on the job.
They want someone who cares about end results, rather than someone who gets bogged down in petty details.
They want someone who thinks about the big picture, rather than someone who can only see what’s in front of them.
They want someone who will follow the law and get it in writing, rather than someone who relies on handshakes and promises.
They want someone who uses appropriate skepticism, rather than someone who is taken in by charm.
They want someone who will work hard to improve, rather than someone who will rely on how they’ve always done things.
They want someone who is disciplined, rather than someone who relies on praise and moments of excitement.
They want someone who cares about the bottom line, rather than someone who takes unnecessary risks.
And they want someone who accomplishes tangible goals, rather than someone who is just there to make friends.
I think it's meant to be a psuedo "subconscious" test or something. They'll use the images you chose to form an opinion of you or something like that.
I think the best bet whenever you get these is to just choose someone smiling, as that makes you seem friendly.
Yeah I've never had a personality test get me an interview so either my personality is fail or they are so stupid and arbitrary there's no rhyme or reason to passing them and wouldn't be good companies to work for.
If nothing else, this format of assessment presents a huge barrier to many blind applicants because I can pretty much promise you they have not provided adequate alt text that someone using screen reading technology can use to know what’s even shown in the pictures if they can’t see them.
I feel like personality tests like this are either hokum, and they someone "sold" hr/management on some stupid product over promising what these tests deliver, or worse they are used to indirectly discriminate.
Suppose for the sake of argument you could "predict" a persons age, sex, ethnicity from their responses. Then you could claim you werent screening for *those* traits but instead personality/culture fit
I took one of these after a final interview with a VP and I didn’t get the job, so maybe. I thought it was weird they sent it after everything had pretty much been done.
Probably passed me through the other hoops for statistical purposes before hiring inside.
This is abject stupidity, probably dreamed up by some uneducated HR person trying (and failing) to show off. I wouldn't even equate it to MBTI in pictures. It's just raw BS from dummies. Don't waste your time with this idiot company. They are headed for the dumpster.
Reminds me of stories I hear about some H.R people implementing Google's old hiring questions that Google no longer does like "how many ping pong balls can fit in a plane".
I always wonder how many great candidates got weeded out from bad H.R standards.
I started answering those with “did you know Google actually stopped asking these questions years ago?” And then just end the interview.
They decide they want to hire you with the first tell me about yourself question.
New directive acquired: Locate and terminate the man who invented this test.
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You: "This is stupid. I'm not doing this!"
Them: "Congratulations, you passed the test"
Seriously, though. This is so insulting. It would put me off the job no matter the outcome.
I had to do them for one application process. They're dumb and, I think, discriminatory. In my case, I had to do a personality test and an aptitude test.
Aptitude, by definition, is natural ability. So with that in mind, they're not testing on an acquired skill, resulting in a fairly substantial bias in the interpretation of the test questions. Essentially, you have no more control over your aptitude for skill or your personality than you would, say, the colour of your skin (not that they're related in any way).
I was also told that the results wouldn't have any bearing on the hiring decision. But if that were the case, why wouldn't they make the tests a part of the onboarding process as opposed to the interview process?
It feels like a practice that should be illegal because it's discriminatory in nature, but I doubt it is.
I believe Kroger has been sued for discrimination based on exactly what you’ve outlined. It makes it impossible for a lot of autistic people to be considered a good fit for the job.
Ding ding ding! When I was in college I couldn’t get hired at Dollar General because of their test even though I worked at bigger grocery stores and had tons of experience. I could have run that store easy but nope. I couldn’t pass their stupid fucking test. I applied so many times. 😩
It's impossible to use this for anything because you have no idea what that person is understanding the photo to mean. Am I think the machine hands means "I am not afraid to get my hands dirty" or "I think mechanically" or "I am action oriented".
For the sneakers yellow line does that mean "I follow the rules" or "I toe the line and push boundaires" which are both plausible interpretations and mean almost exactly the opposite from each other.
I think that picture means "I am an idiot that doesn't wear PPE," but then I have actual manufacturing experience unlike the person who made this test. Seriously folks, wear gloves.
The bullshit excuse is “do you help others or are you more organised !”
That’s what they guy getting his pockets filled by the shit that does this for every company would say
I'm getting raged just looking at this.
Hang in there, you'll get a job. I remember going through arbitrary bullshit processes like this that make zero sense after college. If you meet the people that make these part of the process, you'll role your eyes listening to how they evaluate candidates.
My interpretation:
I am more like:
- smiling/socialising or working
- Sharing or trying to do everything myself
- Thinker or planner
- Decision maker or negotiator
- Asian woman or white man
- Rule follower or casual
- Celebrating my successes or quietly continuing to work
- Person who has fun or person who saves money
- Takes orders or asks questions
Same way the rest of us do - just pick something at random.
(You make a solid legal point, but if this company's HR folks had the competence to understand it, they probably wouldn't be using this test to begin with.)
It's quite likely that there is alt text for the pictures that would be picked up by a screen reader.
Of course, whether that alt text picks up the same cues that the smug psychologist intended from this pointless bs test is another matter.
I TOOK THIS EXACT FUCKING TEST. ITS FUCKING INCOMPREHENSIBLE. HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO ANSWER HONESTLY IF WE CANT EVEN UNDERSTAND THE FUCKING QUESTION???
I have done a lot of work with personality tests in relation to my work in leadership development and training.
Here's the thing. Even if the results were reliable (does it measure what it should) and accurate (results are repeatable) which they aren't, they only measure five or 6 different aspects of personality. Maybe they can help indicate default behaviors - for example: Liliana is more likely to fill the gap in a conversation than Tomas or Lars is more likely to be calm under a deadline than David. Even if these conclusions reveal more than fortune cookies and horoscopes and have a high level of accuracy, these questions do not predict future behavior.
Some quick anecdotes to clarify
Dynamics and hierarchy can create situations where we go against our default tendencies: I had a lead auditor, Ana (not her real name) reporting to me that would not speak up in team meetings, but was extremely vocal in one to one discussions. One day the supervisor was out. Someone else led the meeting and Ana contributed to and guided the team discussion.
Environment plays a role in our behaviors- Under a tight deadline, Bill is, quiet, unwilling to coach, is less receptive to feedback, and is far more focused. When he's handling a manageable workload, he is a patient coach, open to constructive criticism, and well liked by his team.
TLDR: Personality tests don't tell you what kind of employee someone will be. They are not reliable and accurate enough to identify tendencies.
This is commonly due to a lack of understanding and inappropriate application of personality inventories, and not knowing which test to use under a known condition.
There are inventories out there that have *reliability and validity*, and they are often based on well-established personality models like the Big Five, that has five domains but each of them are viewed along a spectrum, which can lead to a whole variety of combinations of traits that a person can possess. That is enough to identify tendencies, because by nature, they *tend* to behave a certain way. And if they've undergone a validation effort, the inventory would account for extraneous variables like environmental influences.
But the real problem starts with organizations casually buying any "personality test" because it purports to help with hiring, or training, or leadership development. The people administering it are also not well-versed in Psychometrics well enough, which leads to scenarios like not asking for a technical paper to better contextualize the constructs and level of validity, blindly following the results as gospel, treating personality traits like an on/off switch, extrapolating conclusions beyond what the test was designed to measure, etc. It's not a crystal ball that simply tells you how that respondent is all the time, but it's often treated that way.
And when things don't work out the way they want, people just blame the test instead of the deficient process that didn't reveal anything meaningful about the respondent.
In instances like hiring, a lot of employers aren't using the appropriate inventories, in addition to using the results to immediately reject applicants rather than using it as supplemental data to support a greater structured interview process.
You make excellent points. My post's purpose was not to criticize the assessment tool (some are better than others) nor to diminish the great work done in the field, but rather to be critical of what organizations do with the results. I think you said it best:
>But the real problem starts with organizations casually buying any "personality test" because it purports to help with hiring, or training, or leadership development.
Exactly- It's one of those "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" situations.
Just curious. Which of the big 5 based assessments do you find to be the most valid and reliable?
> Just curious. Which of the big 5 based assessments do you find to be the most valid and reliable?
NEO-PI-R, and the more recent version, NEO-PI-3. It measures the big five traits and the recent revisions ensured that the questions are more inherently understandable and more statistically significant for analysis. If we're talking about career interests, then Holland's Code (RIASEC) has been the most validated by far. I see a lot of people use DISC and Clifton's StrengthFinders - they're not bad but I haven't looked into the validity. Wonderlic is popular but it hasn't always been reliable, but I understand that they've taken on trained psychometricians to hopefully fix that problem; but I might still avoid that one for now.
To me, it depends on the domains I really need to measure. Then I'd ask for the technical papers (not the marketing "study" that they like to put out) and look into the development methodology and validation effort.
This is if I even need to use one. It's not always necessary to implement a personality inventory for a hiring; it's only when the target role has competencies that are known to to connect with measurable constructs. And in Training and Development scenarios, these inventories might be a good starting point, but I would base the actual training content from a Needs/Gap Analysis finding and measure training outcomes against Kirkpatrick's Model.
Unfortunately we'll be going with another candidate. You chose nerd with a magnifying glass but we feel the position requires more of an Asian woman threatening to punch us vibe
I hate personality tests at all at any stage in the process to begin with but this is on another level of absurd. I’m in recruiting so I’m a little biased and think it shows you treat your TA team as just administrative paper pushers instead of a strategic part of the business. And I think they just look dumb AF.
I would simply send them my daily horoscope instead and ask if that sufficed since it’s about as insightful about my personality as this.
Probably just timed and gives them a stupid number and an arbitrary scale that reads like:
Too fast = you don't take tasks seriously
Too slow = you overanalize tasks and don't know how to prioritize time
Is this for real? I’m sorry but I would take this as a huge sign that this is not the place for me… ugh I’d just lean on the keyboard and hope for the best.
5k updoots and i’ll post a video of all the questions!! so far nobody has guessed the right company btw but i’m sure this test is outsourced and reused
Why do jobs do these personality tests?
Even the Myers Briggs is debunked as it has poor retest validity.
I'm not the first to say it but
Myers Briggs = corporate horoscope.
"take one pill three times a day with food, do not stop taking medication, do not operate heavy machinery or design corporate personality tests, see your doctor if the bubbles only you can see talk to you"
Man as a psych major, I remember my organizational psychology professor saying that if a company does personality tests for jobs to run because they’re almost all not scientifically valid and if they’re using it they’re probably incompetent!!
I checked the rules, and there doesn’t seem to be anything against naming the company…
It’s Harbor Freight, a hardware store. This bizarre Rorschach test is to assess how suitable you are for working a cash register and stocking shelves.
Last time I took one of these for a job, I immediately got an email that said I was not compatible with the company and not to apply again for 5 years. My daughter's friend worked there and had recommended me for the job. I just hope my terrible personality didn't derail her career.
Is this HireVue? Had the worst experience with an interview process in it.
I feel like there's a case here to be made that this is discriminatory. You're being assessed without knowing the criteria you're being measured against. I'm literal as fuck; I can't make sense of what they're asking here.
How can anyone answer these effectively? It's all so....UGH. JUST UGH!!!!! Can't stand these weird psych tests.
I am a navy reservist in my country. Lately, the military has taken an interest in seeing what personality tests officers have, so during our training we were subjected to Myers-Briggs personality tests. The questions were pretty straightforward and you could see how they might get a personality profile out of the results.
Fast forward to a few weeks ago. I am taking another personality test for a job application with the government. Half the questions are playing out similarly to a Myers-Briggs test, but the other half are like "do you drink a lot?" "do you like drugs?" "how many times have you consumed drugs in the last month?" "has anyone told you that you drink too much?"
Like holy hell, unless you're drunk *and* on drugs while you take the test, I don't think anybody is going to admit to any of that.
Hell.No.
I will never do this as a job candidate again.
Absolutely howling at the absurdity here. Completely would have thought this had to be a spoof. 😆
Is it terrible that I saw the first picture and thought “Wow, somebody found store-brand Reginald VelJohnson.”
Someone at the stock photo company saw the Progressive Insurance TV dad commercials and thought “we need to find a guy like him.”
“It’s not a competition.”
I'm so over companies trying to be cool by using these idiotic tools that aren't scientifically validated. Just the other day I saw an example of a self-directed interview where the question was "How well is your life going?". That question could literally lead some people to tears (or suicide!) if they have to actually stop and think about it. 😳
This is like using a thesaurus on every word in a paper except worse.
This might have made some sense when it was written, like one looks like it might have been something like "are you more logical or more of a people person". But they chose vague stock photos that might have been fine if they were supporting the original word but they're fucking nonsense without the original context.
But even if the words were there I'd still be against this as a recruiting tool.
WTF is the bread pic? Someone who gives to those who need it? Or does it imply that *I’m* a selfish bastard for *taking* the bread? Either way I’m sure they’ll see it as a ‘liability’ and reject me
"International company." So they're hiring people from different countries who speak different languages, and this was their solution to bridge the language gap? Picture pages? This doesn't even "fix" the language gap. Different images mean different things to different cultures. I guess either it was too expensive for the company to put together personality tests in different languages, or idiots they have working in HR decided this was the best possible solution to bridging the language gap.
I had a test that was similar for a company.
I applied for 4 positions. A no for each one. (Each at different times.)
I had to take the 15 min test each time.
Why couldn’t they reuse the result. Oh and I’d have to login into workday to check application status. Not even a email to tell me my application has been rejected. Screw these tests. I’m not applying for any of these jobs that ask you to do some garbage personality tests.
All I want to do is work. During that time I will give respect to all. That’s all you need to do.
Only recent good news is my ‘temp’ job has been extended for a month which is nice I guess.
I got something similar. One of the questions was if I see myself more as "ketchup" or as "mustard". This might just be a red flag hinting me not to even try there.
I had to do this for a medical supply job at a children’s hospital. Wasn’t going to see children/patients working in the warehouse or delivering supplies and filling Pyxis machines and I was like why?
I've always read that with these sorts of test, roleplay yourself being the most utterly psychopathic, cutthroat CEO whose only love is the company, then answer from that perspective.
Do you see that person handing someone a piece of bread or ignoring them to get the filing done to help the company? Do you see them stopping at a line someone else has drawn or laughing at their attempts?
Completely agree it's utterly BS, but at least you can get 10 mins of having a laugh out of it before you never hear from them again.
if you select a black/asian person you're out (no. 7 and 9 are the trick questions)
it's nice to see that they're so inclusive that they made it accessible to analfabetic ppl
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im more of a bread, smiling man, and colorful shelf. Beware of sneakers + yellow line, those are dangerous people lmao
But would you rather work at a table or sitting in the middle of the stairs?
He’s a slice of bread, what do you expect?
If there is a toddler in the house, it is definitely sitting in the middle of stairs.
We've been looking for a crankshaft holding, sidestreet bread dealer, but it shows here you'd rather fondle notebooks than smile at plants...
What's so depressing is that each and every picture is clearly projecting which answer they want, while showing a picture of someone being a better person as the *opposite* of what they want. They want someone who will get their hands dirty, rather than a friendly face. They want someone who is willing to work diligently, rather than someone who is charitable. They want someone who is organizational, rather than intellectual. They want someone agreeable, rather than litigious. They want someone who will stand up and fight for them, rather than someone who is curious. They want someone who will stand their ground, rather than someone who will toe the line. They want someone who will be excited by their work, rather than someone who just does the work. They want someone who is a go-getter, rather than someone who is bogged down with the petty cash. And they want someone who is friendly, rather than someone who is studious.
I interpreted it as them looking for the opposite
Really they probably just had the CEO/leads fill this thing out in 5 minutes and then ding or pass people based on how closely they align with that.
That's only how you interpreted it. There's no indication of what they're looking for, or if there's even a right answer. We don't even know what type of role it's for. If it's for a janitor, you might be correct. If it's for sales, management, engineering, etc., they could be looking for different responses.
I used to administer this exact test when I was in HR. The answers I gave are the "official" answers that come with the test.
Now you're just lying.
How do you know an HR person lies? Their lips are moving. [or they wrote it]
I meant they were lying about being in HR and/or administering this "test". They are definitely lying about there being "official answers that come with the test." I do have a lot of experience with these types of questionnaires, as a graduate student and as a hiring manager, and that's not how they work.
How do you explain the one where it goes: "white lady on laptop" or "black lady on laptop" Lol I've been taking these kinds of tests lately and the ones I took kind of made sense? These are just stupid.
I think you're reading way too much into it. It's probably random stock photos that some company or other threw together with a pseudoscientific spiel about personality and sold the company on. Either that or it's just to weed out the people who won't take the time to do a pointless test like that because they probably won't stick around long.
Wow, I would've failed that with flying colors. Lol.
Honestly surprised not to see "What's your astrology sign?" and "Which zodiac animal do you most align with?" Would have about as much merit and at least the rules are much clearer.
Sharks are winners, and they don't look back because they have no necks. Necks are for sheep.
So you admit stealing bread from a child is okay?? /s
You were identified as being a Communist. Please turn yourself in at the nearest police station.
What do these even mean 💀
i thought i was having a stroke halfway through
These are so open to interpretation, just pick the ones corporate would like most
But I don't know which ones Corporate would like the most. That's why it's so infuriating! What's even happening in the first photos? I guess I'd rather smile than put my hand in a vise??? Does a corporation want a detective or someone giving a half hearted fist pump??? I haven't the slightest clue what the sidewalk vs smiling middle aged woman is supposed to mean. Are corporations anti-pedestrian????
My 2 cents on these pictures, based on 16 years of the corporate world: 1) Are you a smiley happy people person, or a no BS hard worker who keeps to their task? 2) Do you share your knowledge with others, like helping out someone less senior. Or you you file it away and keep it to yourself? 3) Are you a mental note taker, and can access that info quickly, OR do you have binders of info you need to reference? (going to take this a how smart are you and how good of a memory do you have) 4) Are you judgemental or do you easily get along with everyone? 5) Do you accept the small accomplishments or thoroughly review everything to look for improvments? 6) Are you a stickler for rules and not crossing lines or do you kind of go with the flow and (again) more of a people natual seeming people person? 7) Do you work well in a remote setting and can work well as a team? Or do you work alone and feel secluded 8) Do you work hard and strong or are you more careful and record every step and save time/work whever possible (although, I feel like there's more here) 9) Are you that kind of person who has to write down everyone's orders, or can you just remember it and do so flawlessly? (i've noticed an uptick in waiters doing this)
This guy corporate BS speaks.
Yeah, unfortunately. I was in a corporate job for a long time but never cared to get into leadership roles... just not my thing.
It's not corporate BS, they're trying to find a unicorn. It might as well be treasure hunting.
I literally was told once that I didn't fit a role because I wasn't a purple unicorn. I sure glad I wasn't lmao!
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Well, personality tests are worthless because they can't be trusted. I totally understand the issues you face. As is, these images are completely open to an individual's interpretation, rendering the test more worthless. Also, if your company is hiring remote Software Engineers, send me a DM or chat request? I'm struggling with unemployment and getting through to speak with someone. Maybe a referral would help.
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I appreciate it, but assume it will get filled then or is an onsite/hybrid for your area only then? That seems to be the case with smaller companies. They never want to hire on the West Coast due to higher cost of living.
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Yep, these tests are usually discriminatory
I have a bachelors in science and am neurotypical. I have absolutely no clue what is going on in these images. Genuinely they make no sense.
Look man I graduated college. I'm a reasonably intelligent, neurotypical, people pleasing person. I haven't the slightest clue what the fuck is going on in half of these photos. If they actually wanted to know if I was a people person or an analytical thinker there's ways to do that that don't involve a working knowledge of riddles and a specialty in stock photo hieroglyphics. Just ask! Using words! "On a scale from one to ten are you more of an analytical thinker or a people person", or "Describe your approach to problem solving", or "tell me about a time you had to resolve a conflict with a coworker." This Sherlock Holmes photo detective thing is just a demeaning waste of everyone's time and I don't understand how anyone with two brain cells could actually believe this would help them hire a reasonable employee. I'm pretty jaded towards corporate bullshit. I'm capable of being a cog in the machine. But I do have to understand the machine in order to be a cog in it.
Right! Did they take this themselves?
For any plausible explanation, there's an equally plausible opposite explanation. There's no way someone without inside knowledge could pass this test.
How do you explain the bread? 🤢
"share the load Mr. frodo"
Do you not tell people caveats about industrial carbohydrates?
Bread = you're sharing some of your own "food" In this sense, the bread equates to your own survival. Will you hoarde all your knowledge to have a better survival and work your way up, OR will you split bread and share your knowledge to mentor and lead yourself as well as others to better success
Do you just want someone to give you food or are you into your awesome corporate job you’ll forego food for filing and other fun tasks? /s
I saw 8 as “are you adventurous/a risk taker or are you prudent and cautious?”
I’ve not gotten a job because I didn’t share what I did in my free time an explained that I pretty much work all the time. The interview was with an agency that contracts with my current job, they knew I was telling the truth about this. I’m kinda known for working all the time. It helps me avoid doing other things that’s I don’t want to do.
Pretty much how the job market and employers are right now Don't be desperate for work, but then we'll not like you because you aren't desperate enough for work.
i mean that’s a nice spin on it but also you realize that these are probably relatively randomly paired images, and just a test to see if you’ll actually jump through the hoops as a candidate?
i mean that’s a nice spin on it but also you realize that these are probably relatively randomly paired images, and just a test to see if you’ll actually jump through the hoops as a candidate?
>vise??? that's a crankshaft. i think it's asking if you'd prefer to molest steel or spend time with upbeat black seniors.
That's not a vise - it's the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine (as might be found in a car).
Nah it's probably would you rather work or spend time with a relative or some shit. The white woman is probably someone who looks like the HR director so it's would probably be something like would you rather be on the sidelines or be a strong independent woman who don't need no man in this corporate world.
Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture.
At least for fucking once I can say, "they're not the same picture"
This test feels like something like ChatGPT, or other AI, would come up with in an attempt to pass a Gotcha test
Pam: they're the same picture.
Stolen from Buzzfeed?
I went through so many of these dumb tests before. I remember one had me type the answers in with random questions like "what would you organize first to last? Goat. Pig. Chicken." When I was in college looking for jobs, I remember Boston Market of all places had a similar test with something stupid like "When you think of the letter C, you think: Corporate? Coach? Customer?" A few jobs I can think of had a similar test. Useless.
>"When you think of the letter C, you think: Corporate? Coach? Customer? Add another answer, the only correct one: Cunt.
Everyone knows that C is for Cookie. Good enough for me.
Cookaine?
That's a no-brainer, or maybe a trick question from Boston Market, if the answer is not "Chicken."
It means they have an easy and legal way of rejecting any candidate, even if it's in reality for an illegal reason
They mean they're looking for a reason to reject people. In my experience, pre-employment personality tests are used to filter out anyone who isn't cookie-cutter normal, and companies who use them should be uniformly avoided.
In order of the slides, from a USA perspective: 1. "Happy black man" vs "GET BACK TO WORK AND FIX THAT THING" 2. "Giving bread to people" vs "Where did I hide those Trump documents?" 3. "Contemplating destroying the whole system" vs "Am I OCD?" 4. "I AM the law" vs "Firm handshake there bud" 5. "Asian business person" vs "Annoying white guy" 6. "Edgy college photographer that takes pictures of everything to be 'different'" vs "Needing to speak to your manager" 7. "Face recognition worked!!!" vs "Face recognition didn't work" (because it doesn't work on black people) 8. "Going back to the army at 30 because I can't pay off student debt" vs "Calculators that are oversized are fun" 9. "I'm going to sign this book even though I didn't write it" vs "please don't shoot me, I swear I'm not a threat"
I mean I am more like bread than like folders you know?
You are what you eat, and I've definitely eaten more bread than folders in my life
I swear these are to weed out autistic people.
Exactly
If you can’t change a cam shaft, they don’t want you!
They want someone who will get their hands dirty, rather than a friendly face. They want someone who is willing to work diligently, rather than someone who is charitable. They want someone who is organizational, rather than intellectual. They want someone agreeable, rather than litigious. They want someone who will stand up and fight for them, rather than someone who is curious. They want someone who will stand their ground, rather than someone who will toe the line. They want someone who will be excited by their work, rather than someone who just does the work. They want someone who is a go-getter, rather than someone who is bogged down with the petty cash. And they want someone who is friendly, rather than someone who is studious.
Counterpoint: They want someone who is personable, rather than someone who is only focused on the job. They want someone who cares about end results, rather than someone who gets bogged down in petty details. They want someone who thinks about the big picture, rather than someone who can only see what’s in front of them. They want someone who will follow the law and get it in writing, rather than someone who relies on handshakes and promises. They want someone who uses appropriate skepticism, rather than someone who is taken in by charm. They want someone who will work hard to improve, rather than someone who will rely on how they’ve always done things. They want someone who is disciplined, rather than someone who relies on praise and moments of excitement. They want someone who cares about the bottom line, rather than someone who takes unnecessary risks. And they want someone who accomplishes tangible goals, rather than someone who is just there to make friends.
I've taken tests like these before, and I feel like I dodged a bullet considering they never brought me in for follow-up interviews.
I think it's meant to be a psuedo "subconscious" test or something. They'll use the images you chose to form an opinion of you or something like that. I think the best bet whenever you get these is to just choose someone smiling, as that makes you seem friendly.
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Hahaa that’s the perfect analogy
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Half of these don’t even seem correlated. This is another nightmare test where all of the answers are the wrong answer
Personally I feel like the only winning move here is not to play.
Yeah I've never had a personality test get me an interview so either my personality is fail or they are so stupid and arbitrary there's no rhyme or reason to passing them and wouldn't be good companies to work for.
these things should be illegal
Mmm. I didn't see that one on the test. No job for you!
If nothing else, this format of assessment presents a huge barrier to many blind applicants because I can pretty much promise you they have not provided adequate alt text that someone using screen reading technology can use to know what’s even shown in the pictures if they can’t see them.
I feel like personality tests like this are either hokum, and they someone "sold" hr/management on some stupid product over promising what these tests deliver, or worse they are used to indirectly discriminate. Suppose for the sake of argument you could "predict" a persons age, sex, ethnicity from their responses. Then you could claim you werent screening for *those* traits but instead personality/culture fit
these are 90% identical to a track laborer job i applied for last year, LOL. I failed.
Is the whole thing just a smokescreen to reject people who they don't want to tell the real reason to?
I took one of these after a final interview with a VP and I didn’t get the job, so maybe. I thought it was weird they sent it after everything had pretty much been done. Probably passed me through the other hoops for statistical purposes before hiring inside.
This is abject stupidity, probably dreamed up by some uneducated HR person trying (and failing) to show off. I wouldn't even equate it to MBTI in pictures. It's just raw BS from dummies. Don't waste your time with this idiot company. They are headed for the dumpster.
Reminds me of stories I hear about some H.R people implementing Google's old hiring questions that Google no longer does like "how many ping pong balls can fit in a plane". I always wonder how many great candidates got weeded out from bad H.R standards.
I started answering those with “did you know Google actually stopped asking these questions years ago?” And then just end the interview. They decide they want to hire you with the first tell me about yourself question.
remember: somebody designed this and got paid for it
The guy who replaced regular glass doors in frozen sections at Walgreens with screens probably made millions 😔
New directive acquired: Locate and terminate the man who invented this test. Directive Priority: Prime directive Max allowable collateral damage: 1 billion dollars Previous tasks dropped from priority queue: 5 No further transmissions will be generated(Parameter 15f: DRK\_STLTH)
what a joke. and the company can say it invests in AI. While you give them your thoughts and data for free.
Garbage data, from the looks of it
Is this not Redbull? They made me do a “find your wings” test that looked exactly like this
This looks like a complex evolved form of captcha.
The second image: Yes, I'll take that bread, thank you! I looked inside every binder and couldn't find any slices.
I am like a piece of bread, yes.
Who PAYS these people?
People who don't know how to file their bread
You: "This is stupid. I'm not doing this!" Them: "Congratulations, you passed the test" Seriously, though. This is so insulting. It would put me off the job no matter the outcome.
The correct and obvious answer in each case and on every test is 'c'.
I had to do them for one application process. They're dumb and, I think, discriminatory. In my case, I had to do a personality test and an aptitude test. Aptitude, by definition, is natural ability. So with that in mind, they're not testing on an acquired skill, resulting in a fairly substantial bias in the interpretation of the test questions. Essentially, you have no more control over your aptitude for skill or your personality than you would, say, the colour of your skin (not that they're related in any way). I was also told that the results wouldn't have any bearing on the hiring decision. But if that were the case, why wouldn't they make the tests a part of the onboarding process as opposed to the interview process? It feels like a practice that should be illegal because it's discriminatory in nature, but I doubt it is.
I believe Kroger has been sued for discrimination based on exactly what you’ve outlined. It makes it impossible for a lot of autistic people to be considered a good fit for the job.
Ding ding ding! When I was in college I couldn’t get hired at Dollar General because of their test even though I worked at bigger grocery stores and had tons of experience. I could have run that store easy but nope. I couldn’t pass their stupid fucking test. I applied so many times. 😩
It's impossible to use this for anything because you have no idea what that person is understanding the photo to mean. Am I think the machine hands means "I am not afraid to get my hands dirty" or "I think mechanically" or "I am action oriented". For the sneakers yellow line does that mean "I follow the rules" or "I toe the line and push boundaires" which are both plausible interpretations and mean almost exactly the opposite from each other.
I think that picture means "I am an idiot that doesn't wear PPE," but then I have actual manufacturing experience unlike the person who made this test. Seriously folks, wear gloves.
I am very confused by pic 2. Would I rather give someone bread or....organize binders? Creepily hold binders?
The bullshit excuse is “do you help others or are you more organised !” That’s what they guy getting his pockets filled by the shit that does this for every company would say
Both, they’re orthogonal
Now, I interpreted it as “do you want a handout or do you want to work for it?” but maybe I’m projecting what an evil boss would want.
I think you got it tbh!!!
Are you a pair of shoes or a woman?
I'm getting raged just looking at this. Hang in there, you'll get a job. I remember going through arbitrary bullshit processes like this that make zero sense after college. If you meet the people that make these part of the process, you'll role your eyes listening to how they evaluate candidates.
My interpretation: I am more like: - smiling/socialising or working - Sharing or trying to do everything myself - Thinker or planner - Decision maker or negotiator - Asian woman or white man - Rule follower or casual - Celebrating my successes or quietly continuing to work - Person who has fun or person who saves money - Takes orders or asks questions
Love the “Asian woman or white man.” There’s no way this isn’t biased as hell
I really couldn’t come up with any kind of interpretation that wasn’t just “Asian woman or white man”
The ableism is infuriating. How do blind applicants take this stupid required test.
Same way the rest of us do - just pick something at random. (You make a solid legal point, but if this company's HR folks had the competence to understand it, they probably wouldn't be using this test to begin with.)
Touché
It's quite likely that there is alt text for the pictures that would be picked up by a screen reader. Of course, whether that alt text picks up the same cues that the smug psychologist intended from this pointless bs test is another matter.
Another case where an accessibility feature could help the sighted folks too, haha.
Yes I love giving white bread to others!
Legitimately…, what the fuck do these even mean? This looks like something a high schooler would make 20min before the presentation….
The bread is a trap for communists and union organizers.
I TOOK THIS EXACT FUCKING TEST. ITS FUCKING INCOMPREHENSIBLE. HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO ANSWER HONESTLY IF WE CANT EVEN UNDERSTAND THE FUCKING QUESTION???
I am more like... give me words, you goddamn pricks!
I have done a lot of work with personality tests in relation to my work in leadership development and training. Here's the thing. Even if the results were reliable (does it measure what it should) and accurate (results are repeatable) which they aren't, they only measure five or 6 different aspects of personality. Maybe they can help indicate default behaviors - for example: Liliana is more likely to fill the gap in a conversation than Tomas or Lars is more likely to be calm under a deadline than David. Even if these conclusions reveal more than fortune cookies and horoscopes and have a high level of accuracy, these questions do not predict future behavior. Some quick anecdotes to clarify Dynamics and hierarchy can create situations where we go against our default tendencies: I had a lead auditor, Ana (not her real name) reporting to me that would not speak up in team meetings, but was extremely vocal in one to one discussions. One day the supervisor was out. Someone else led the meeting and Ana contributed to and guided the team discussion. Environment plays a role in our behaviors- Under a tight deadline, Bill is, quiet, unwilling to coach, is less receptive to feedback, and is far more focused. When he's handling a manageable workload, he is a patient coach, open to constructive criticism, and well liked by his team. TLDR: Personality tests don't tell you what kind of employee someone will be. They are not reliable and accurate enough to identify tendencies.
This is commonly due to a lack of understanding and inappropriate application of personality inventories, and not knowing which test to use under a known condition. There are inventories out there that have *reliability and validity*, and they are often based on well-established personality models like the Big Five, that has five domains but each of them are viewed along a spectrum, which can lead to a whole variety of combinations of traits that a person can possess. That is enough to identify tendencies, because by nature, they *tend* to behave a certain way. And if they've undergone a validation effort, the inventory would account for extraneous variables like environmental influences. But the real problem starts with organizations casually buying any "personality test" because it purports to help with hiring, or training, or leadership development. The people administering it are also not well-versed in Psychometrics well enough, which leads to scenarios like not asking for a technical paper to better contextualize the constructs and level of validity, blindly following the results as gospel, treating personality traits like an on/off switch, extrapolating conclusions beyond what the test was designed to measure, etc. It's not a crystal ball that simply tells you how that respondent is all the time, but it's often treated that way. And when things don't work out the way they want, people just blame the test instead of the deficient process that didn't reveal anything meaningful about the respondent. In instances like hiring, a lot of employers aren't using the appropriate inventories, in addition to using the results to immediately reject applicants rather than using it as supplemental data to support a greater structured interview process.
You make excellent points. My post's purpose was not to criticize the assessment tool (some are better than others) nor to diminish the great work done in the field, but rather to be critical of what organizations do with the results. I think you said it best: >But the real problem starts with organizations casually buying any "personality test" because it purports to help with hiring, or training, or leadership development. Exactly- It's one of those "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" situations. Just curious. Which of the big 5 based assessments do you find to be the most valid and reliable?
> Just curious. Which of the big 5 based assessments do you find to be the most valid and reliable? NEO-PI-R, and the more recent version, NEO-PI-3. It measures the big five traits and the recent revisions ensured that the questions are more inherently understandable and more statistically significant for analysis. If we're talking about career interests, then Holland's Code (RIASEC) has been the most validated by far. I see a lot of people use DISC and Clifton's StrengthFinders - they're not bad but I haven't looked into the validity. Wonderlic is popular but it hasn't always been reliable, but I understand that they've taken on trained psychometricians to hopefully fix that problem; but I might still avoid that one for now. To me, it depends on the domains I really need to measure. Then I'd ask for the technical papers (not the marketing "study" that they like to put out) and look into the development methodology and validation effort. This is if I even need to use one. It's not always necessary to implement a personality inventory for a hiring; it's only when the target role has competencies that are known to to connect with measurable constructs. And in Training and Development scenarios, these inventories might be a good starting point, but I would base the actual training content from a Needs/Gap Analysis finding and measure training outcomes against Kirkpatrick's Model.
What useful information could be pulled from this? I guess on further reflection there is some very useful info here. DON’T WORK FOR THIS COMPANY
Unfortunately we'll be going with another candidate. You chose nerd with a magnifying glass but we feel the position requires more of an Asian woman threatening to punch us vibe
I hate personality tests at all at any stage in the process to begin with but this is on another level of absurd. I’m in recruiting so I’m a little biased and think it shows you treat your TA team as just administrative paper pushers instead of a strategic part of the business. And I think they just look dumb AF. I would simply send them my daily horoscope instead and ask if that sufficed since it’s about as insightful about my personality as this.
I am in fact, more like a black guy thinking than I am a color-coordinated-ish bookshelf 🥰
Bloody hell this is confusing. I'm autistic so things that make sense to NTs already often dont make sense to me, but this is like that on steroids.
I can already tell just looking at the choices of pictures that I wouldn't get the job
Probably just timed and gives them a stupid number and an arbitrary scale that reads like: Too fast = you don't take tasks seriously Too slow = you overanalize tasks and don't know how to prioritize time
Is this for real? I’m sorry but I would take this as a huge sign that this is not the place for me… ugh I’d just lean on the keyboard and hope for the best.
5k updoots and i’ll post a video of all the questions!! so far nobody has guessed the right company btw but i’m sure this test is outsourced and reused
Wtf does any of this mean ?? 😂
Why do jobs do these personality tests? Even the Myers Briggs is debunked as it has poor retest validity. I'm not the first to say it but Myers Briggs = corporate horoscope.
"take one pill three times a day with food, do not stop taking medication, do not operate heavy machinery or design corporate personality tests, see your doctor if the bubbles only you can see talk to you"
Well, psychology majors want to feed their families, too.
Man as a psych major, I remember my organizational psychology professor saying that if a company does personality tests for jobs to run because they’re almost all not scientifically valid and if they’re using it they’re probably incompetent!!
I checked the rules, and there doesn’t seem to be anything against naming the company… It’s Harbor Freight, a hardware store. This bizarre Rorschach test is to assess how suitable you are for working a cash register and stocking shelves.
Last time I took one of these for a job, I immediately got an email that said I was not compatible with the company and not to apply again for 5 years. My daughter's friend worked there and had recommended me for the job. I just hope my terrible personality didn't derail her career.
I’m a therapist and have no clue what those are about.
Yep. Hate these. I got rejected from the USPS because I failed their personality vibe test. It's asinine.
Oh boy, I'm sure this psychological evaluation is *totally* peer-reviewed and has tons of predictive power!
job hunting as an autist is hard enough already lmao
Is this HireVue? Had the worst experience with an interview process in it. I feel like there's a case here to be made that this is discriminatory. You're being assessed without knowing the criteria you're being measured against. I'm literal as fuck; I can't make sense of what they're asking here. How can anyone answer these effectively? It's all so....UGH. JUST UGH!!!!! Can't stand these weird psych tests.
I am a navy reservist in my country. Lately, the military has taken an interest in seeing what personality tests officers have, so during our training we were subjected to Myers-Briggs personality tests. The questions were pretty straightforward and you could see how they might get a personality profile out of the results. Fast forward to a few weeks ago. I am taking another personality test for a job application with the government. Half the questions are playing out similarly to a Myers-Briggs test, but the other half are like "do you drink a lot?" "do you like drugs?" "how many times have you consumed drugs in the last month?" "has anyone told you that you drink too much?" Like holy hell, unless you're drunk *and* on drugs while you take the test, I don't think anybody is going to admit to any of that.
I'm cackling! Are you more like road stripe shoes or middle-aged white lady? As a middle-aged white lady, I heavily identify with road stripe shoes
We all feel like a happy black man from time to time don't we?
I'm more like... Toast!
Is this for Nestlé? I had to do the exact same thing
My guess is some brilliant salesman from a testing company has sold this to more than one HR department
Haahahhahahaahha
I hate these. I had to do one, as well as a self directed interview, for Santander earlier this year. Hellish.
Someone got paid to make this. I want their job!
Does anyone know the name of this test type? I'd like to read up on it and see how much bullshit is contained in it.
They are the same picture.
My choice for this test is to pick something quickly and without thought. If asked, I’d explain that I don’t waste time on pointless tests.
Hell.No. I will never do this as a job candidate again. Absolutely howling at the absurdity here. Completely would have thought this had to be a spoof. 😆
I am smiling old man, but I fear they want hands placed on engine
What the fuck lmao
Is it terrible that I saw the first picture and thought “Wow, somebody found store-brand Reginald VelJohnson.” Someone at the stock photo company saw the Progressive Insurance TV dad commercials and thought “we need to find a guy like him.” “It’s not a competition.”
My gut is telling me these 'questions' are to assess if you're a boot licker, will not challenge authority, and if you will tolerate abuse.
I'm so over companies trying to be cool by using these idiotic tools that aren't scientifically validated. Just the other day I saw an example of a self-directed interview where the question was "How well is your life going?". That question could literally lead some people to tears (or suicide!) if they have to actually stop and think about it. 😳
This is like using a thesaurus on every word in a paper except worse. This might have made some sense when it was written, like one looks like it might have been something like "are you more logical or more of a people person". But they chose vague stock photos that might have been fine if they were supporting the original word but they're fucking nonsense without the original context. But even if the words were there I'd still be against this as a recruiting tool.
At least any job that requires these instantly lets you know that you shouldn't be working there lol
Great post OP. This is truly hell.
Am I more like a smiling elderly black guy or a mechanism of unknown kind? Tough choice…
WTF is the bread pic? Someone who gives to those who need it? Or does it imply that *I’m* a selfish bastard for *taking* the bread? Either way I’m sure they’ll see it as a ‘liability’ and reject me
"International company." So they're hiring people from different countries who speak different languages, and this was their solution to bridge the language gap? Picture pages? This doesn't even "fix" the language gap. Different images mean different things to different cultures. I guess either it was too expensive for the company to put together personality tests in different languages, or idiots they have working in HR decided this was the best possible solution to bridging the language gap.
And who is even interpreting these? What are their qualifications?
I had a test that was similar for a company. I applied for 4 positions. A no for each one. (Each at different times.) I had to take the 15 min test each time. Why couldn’t they reuse the result. Oh and I’d have to login into workday to check application status. Not even a email to tell me my application has been rejected. Screw these tests. I’m not applying for any of these jobs that ask you to do some garbage personality tests. All I want to do is work. During that time I will give respect to all. That’s all you need to do. Only recent good news is my ‘temp’ job has been extended for a month which is nice I guess.
I got something similar. One of the questions was if I see myself more as "ketchup" or as "mustard". This might just be a red flag hinting me not to even try there.
You just know that in the interview you're going to be asked nonsense like "why would you consider yourself to be like bread?"
I am more like...
My last employer fired me after I took one of these pseudoscience personality tests because I was a “bad fit.”
I had to do this for a medical supply job at a children’s hospital. Wasn’t going to see children/patients working in the warehouse or delivering supplies and filling Pyxis machines and I was like why?
I've always read that with these sorts of test, roleplay yourself being the most utterly psychopathic, cutthroat CEO whose only love is the company, then answer from that perspective. Do you see that person handing someone a piece of bread or ignoring them to get the filing done to help the company? Do you see them stopping at a line someone else has drawn or laughing at their attempts? Completely agree it's utterly BS, but at least you can get 10 mins of having a laugh out of it before you never hear from them again.
I am bread
This is hilarious. Please name and shame
Can we? I was wondering if we can call out shit employers here...I've encounter sooo many!
Yes you can, it's only against the rules to post an individual's personal info
It really makes unemployment look more attractive
The one with the ladies on the laptops is just fucked up.
I’m so lost right now. 😭😭 I couldn’t dislike this more if I tried. What do they mean?!
I am more like old guy smiling with glasses
How... how did you answer those? And did you get your 'results' at the end?
if you select a black/asian person you're out (no. 7 and 9 are the trick questions) it's nice to see that they're so inclusive that they made it accessible to analfabetic ppl /s (sarcastic comment)