The whole world has gone fucking crazy!
- I am a veteran.
- I have a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a 3.75 out of 4.00 GPA.
And everyone wants to use asinine assessment tests to gatekeep me out of a job. I already jumped through four fucking years of hoops, spent tens of thousands of dollars, gave up tens of thousands of dollars via opportunity costs (I could have been working a job during that time).
And if I don’t complete their test I don’t get the job and the person with a GED or High School diploma who does complete it gets the job. They only want compliance and the abilty to utterly control you.
I have done my fair share of hiring for development roles over the years. I used a simple test for years but have since decided tests are mean and largely pointless.
But the reason we started using tests for recent grads is because our local university did not prepare CS students for careers in programming. Most of the fresh grads we hired were from the community college, as they actually understand development fundamentals. But in either case we needed to actually know if people understood their degree material.