I’m still mad that a contracting company made me take a general intelligence test and programming test before sending my resume to a client only for the client to reject me because I didn’t have enough experience. Literally wasted over three hours of my life. Not to mention the general test they let me retake because I didn’t finish it in time (if I didn’t finish it that time I may have pulled the ADHD card because wtf that test was insane), so if they just let me retake it for basically no reason, they’re basically admitting it’s bullshit. The programming test was all questions about extremely outdated Spring (Java framework) concepts, like XML configs. Nobody uses that anymore unless they’re maintaining something ancient (and based on the requirements for the position they weren’t, they were using newer stuff).
I’m still mad that a contracting company made me take a general intelligence test and programming test before sending my resume to a client only for the client to reject me because I didn’t have enough experience. Literally wasted over three hours of my life. Not to mention the general test they let me retake because I didn’t finish it in time (if I didn’t finish it that time I may have pulled the ADHD card because wtf that test was insane), so if they just let me retake it for basically no reason, they’re basically admitting it’s bullshit. The programming test was all questions about extremely outdated Spring (Java framework) concepts, like XML configs. Nobody uses that anymore unless they’re maintaining something ancient (and based on the requirements for the position they weren’t, they were using newer stuff).