I just took a 400 question personality test for the final round of a job interview. I spent 3 hours doing it. Why is this even a thing?

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Let’s start a new thread (sub-thread?)—guessing which company OP was applying to. Winner gets a copy of the actual questionnaire, courtesy of OP, along with the chance to apply for a job at the same place. I ‘ll kick this off with 3 guesses:1 - Breitbart News Network, 2- Koch Industries. 3- It doesn’t matter, because you fail this test by taking it. Any other takers?

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What agency? I would like to put it on my “never apply for a job there” list. Unless it’s WK obvz.

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Fact.

Call a lawyer.

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Seems like something Google would do

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For Target?

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Thank god, they didn’t give you the battery of questions from 401 - 600. Question 401: "are you now, or have you ever, contemplated suicide?”

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These are some of the disturbing questions I had to answer, I have never seen something like this:

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Speechless. Wow.

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No job is worth that.

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I’m going with Koch Brothers.

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NRA In-house?

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Sounds absolutely neurotic

Ive never heard of that. How can you take that as anything but “we dont hire people who dont give our favorite answers?”

Which agency and city is this?

St. Louis?

Red Bull?

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If that came in my inbox I would simply decline going further

Run don’t walk away. 🤮

Fox News pundit.

This is less insidious than you all think. It’s a quiz from 1977 from a study that wanted to see how perceptions on gender roles affect a woman’s career choice.

Somewhat common in larger corporations, at least here in Canada. Mostly for managerial roles. L'Oreal?

Only one agency I know that does that is R&R partners

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