Workplace Personality Inventory test
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Marc Clifton wrote:
"I will be contacting a lawyer to sue Pearson, the creator of this test."
Pearson have seen this post, and their legal notice is already on the way to reach you :-)
Avijnata wrote:
Pearson have seen this post, and their legal notice is already on the way to reach you
Good, because I just blogged[^] about it too. Which means it's also on FB and Twitter. Marc
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So, I took this test as part of an application process. This is what it came up with: I am "unlikely to set challenging work goals, and may exert a low level of effort toward achievement of goals" I "may not persist when faced with difficulties or obstacles, or when success seems unlikely" I "have little interest in volunteering for or taking on new work responsibilities or challenges" I "Appear to have little or no interest in taking charge, or directing and leading others; may be hesitant to offer opinions" I "May not be consistently pleasant, good-natured, or cooperative" The one thing it failed to mention: "I will be contacting a lawyer to sue Pearson, the creator of this test." I kid you not. These personality tests are utter bullshit. Marc
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Your big mistake was answering honestly. You have to give them the answers they are looking for. Don't you know anything??? :-)
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Your big mistake was answering honestly. You have to give them the answers they are looking for. Don't you know anything??? :-)
One of the results is an "honesty" result. If your questions show an overly-positive attitude your whole test is flagged as probably being false. Damned if you do, damned if you don't :)
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Your big mistake was answering honestly. You have to give them the answers they are looking for. Don't you know anything??? :-)
R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:
You have to give them the answers they are looking for.
One of my favorite questions was "Have you ever lied to your employer?" Marc
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:
You have to give them the answers they are looking for.
One of my favorite questions was "Have you ever lied to your employer?" Marc
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:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: That has to be the stupidest question ever. They are looking for controllable drones with zero personality - you clearly are not one.
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Nelek wrote:
was it online? I now am curious...
Yeah, google Pearson "Workplace Personality Inventory" test. You have to pay $29 if you want to take it yourself. Marc
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:omg: :omg: :wtf: :wtf: Ok... I am curious, but not so curious :doh: :doh: :doh: :doh: I trust you full with the conclusion... bullsh1t
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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So, I took this test as part of an application process. This is what it came up with: I am "unlikely to set challenging work goals, and may exert a low level of effort toward achievement of goals" I "may not persist when faced with difficulties or obstacles, or when success seems unlikely" I "have little interest in volunteering for or taking on new work responsibilities or challenges" I "Appear to have little or no interest in taking charge, or directing and leading others; may be hesitant to offer opinions" I "May not be consistently pleasant, good-natured, or cooperative" The one thing it failed to mention: "I will be contacting a lawyer to sue Pearson, the creator of this test." I kid you not. These personality tests are utter bullshit. Marc
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"unlikely to set challenging work goals, and may exert a low level of effort toward achievement of goals" The best developer is a lazy programmer - why create more work for yourself when you can design systems that are easy to maintain and easy to scale(eurgh horrible buzzword!). "may not persist when faced with difficulties or obstacles, or when success seems unlikely" Why keep banging your head against a wall when they are alternative ways of doing things such as using google? "have little interest in volunteering for or taking on new work responsibilities or challenges" As if a developer has any time to take on anything else. "Appear to have little or no interest in taking charge, or directing and leading others; may be hesitant to offer opinions" Opinions in the software development world are cheap and it's rare for someone to listen to our opinions because,after all, they know all about how to design software. "May not be consistently pleasant, good-natured, or cooperative" See point above...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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So, I took this test as part of an application process. This is what it came up with: I am "unlikely to set challenging work goals, and may exert a low level of effort toward achievement of goals" I "may not persist when faced with difficulties or obstacles, or when success seems unlikely" I "have little interest in volunteering for or taking on new work responsibilities or challenges" I "Appear to have little or no interest in taking charge, or directing and leading others; may be hesitant to offer opinions" I "May not be consistently pleasant, good-natured, or cooperative" The one thing it failed to mention: "I will be contacting a lawyer to sue Pearson, the creator of this test." I kid you not. These personality tests are utter bullshit. Marc
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Remind me not to socialize with you in the future, you seem to be a negative influence :laugh: Seriously though, in this case it's not you (well not entirely) who suffers from this test. Suppose you were a serious candidate and this company rejects you based on these test results. The company just missed a major opportunity! I had something just like it once. A company I wanted to buy from wouldn't sell me their product because somehow some financial bureau decided I was not worthy of credit! I am a lot, but I've never missed a payment in my life :doh: The company missed out on revenue and I shopped somewhere else. Later I found out that it was because I just moved and the person who lived in the house before I did was a notorious defaulter... So all they really did was an address check, absurd! :~
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So, I took this test as part of an application process. This is what it came up with: I am "unlikely to set challenging work goals, and may exert a low level of effort toward achievement of goals" I "may not persist when faced with difficulties or obstacles, or when success seems unlikely" I "have little interest in volunteering for or taking on new work responsibilities or challenges" I "Appear to have little or no interest in taking charge, or directing and leading others; may be hesitant to offer opinions" I "May not be consistently pleasant, good-natured, or cooperative" The one thing it failed to mention: "I will be contacting a lawyer to sue Pearson, the creator of this test." I kid you not. These personality tests are utter bullshit. Marc
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My God! You must've gotten my results... :doh: :laugh:
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"unlikely to set challenging work goals, and may exert a low level of effort toward achievement of goals" The best developer is a lazy programmer - why create more work for yourself when you can design systems that are easy to maintain and easy to scale(eurgh horrible buzzword!). "may not persist when faced with difficulties or obstacles, or when success seems unlikely" Why keep banging your head against a wall when they are alternative ways of doing things such as using google? "have little interest in volunteering for or taking on new work responsibilities or challenges" As if a developer has any time to take on anything else. "Appear to have little or no interest in taking charge, or directing and leading others; may be hesitant to offer opinions" Opinions in the software development world are cheap and it's rare for someone to listen to our opinions because,after all, they know all about how to design software. "May not be consistently pleasant, good-natured, or cooperative" See point above...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
GuyThiebaut wrote:
The best developer is a lazy programmer
The laziest always find the easiest way to get it done
GuyThiebaut wrote:
Why keep banging your head against a wall when they are alternative ways of doing things such as using google?
Don't forget the QA and "gimme code plzzz, it's urgent"
GuyThiebaut wrote:
As if a developer has any time to take on anything else.
Did you forget coffee, bacon and beer? ;P ;P ;P :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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So, I took this test as part of an application process. This is what it came up with: I am "unlikely to set challenging work goals, and may exert a low level of effort toward achievement of goals" I "may not persist when faced with difficulties or obstacles, or when success seems unlikely" I "have little interest in volunteering for or taking on new work responsibilities or challenges" I "Appear to have little or no interest in taking charge, or directing and leading others; may be hesitant to offer opinions" I "May not be consistently pleasant, good-natured, or cooperative" The one thing it failed to mention: "I will be contacting a lawyer to sue Pearson, the creator of this test." I kid you not. These personality tests are utter bullshit. Marc
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So, I took this test as part of an application process. This is what it came up with: I am "unlikely to set challenging work goals, and may exert a low level of effort toward achievement of goals" I "may not persist when faced with difficulties or obstacles, or when success seems unlikely" I "have little interest in volunteering for or taking on new work responsibilities or challenges" I "Appear to have little or no interest in taking charge, or directing and leading others; may be hesitant to offer opinions" I "May not be consistently pleasant, good-natured, or cooperative" The one thing it failed to mention: "I will be contacting a lawyer to sue Pearson, the creator of this test." I kid you not. These personality tests are utter bullshit. Marc
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:
You have to give them the answers they are looking for.
One of my favorite questions was "Have you ever lied to your employer?" Marc
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Related question to someone, already a manager, aspiring for a senior management role: "Have you ever lied to your subordinate?"
if (yes) {
You are in
} else {
Remain wherever you are :-)
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"unlikely to set challenging work goals, and may exert a low level of effort toward achievement of goals" The best developer is a lazy programmer - why create more work for yourself when you can design systems that are easy to maintain and easy to scale(eurgh horrible buzzword!). "may not persist when faced with difficulties or obstacles, or when success seems unlikely" Why keep banging your head against a wall when they are alternative ways of doing things such as using google? "have little interest in volunteering for or taking on new work responsibilities or challenges" As if a developer has any time to take on anything else. "Appear to have little or no interest in taking charge, or directing and leading others; may be hesitant to offer opinions" Opinions in the software development world are cheap and it's rare for someone to listen to our opinions because,after all, they know all about how to design software. "May not be consistently pleasant, good-natured, or cooperative" See point above...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
GuyThiebaut wrote:
The best developer is a lazy programmer
Agreed (and on the rest), and that's the thing, I answered the questions based not just on context but the lessons learned over 35+ years of programming. Marc
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Perhaps it reflected the state of mind you had at the time, and you weren’t really interested in the job to start with when you took the said stupid test.
ledtech3 wrote:
Perhaps it reflected the state of mind you had at the time, and you weren’t really interested in the job to start with when you took the said stupid test.
No, I answered the questions quite honestly -- not just honestly, but based on real world experience. So, when there's a question like "you are happy to drop what you are doing and immediately help a coworker that is having a problem", my answer was "disagree", because it depends on what I'm doing, and whether the coworker can figure it out on their own and learn something, but they're just asking me because they know I know the answer (happens all the time!) But because I "disagree", I'm now marked as an antisocial cretin. ;) Marc
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So, I took this test as part of an application process. This is what it came up with: I am "unlikely to set challenging work goals, and may exert a low level of effort toward achievement of goals" I "may not persist when faced with difficulties or obstacles, or when success seems unlikely" I "have little interest in volunteering for or taking on new work responsibilities or challenges" I "Appear to have little or no interest in taking charge, or directing and leading others; may be hesitant to offer opinions" I "May not be consistently pleasant, good-natured, or cooperative" The one thing it failed to mention: "I will be contacting a lawyer to sue Pearson, the creator of this test." I kid you not. These personality tests are utter bullshit. Marc
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Was this for an interview at Capital One by chance? Looks pretty much like the same stupid SAT-like test they expected me to take. I refused.
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ledtech3 wrote:
Perhaps it reflected the state of mind you had at the time, and you weren’t really interested in the job to start with when you took the said stupid test.
No, I answered the questions quite honestly -- not just honestly, but based on real world experience. So, when there's a question like "you are happy to drop what you are doing and immediately help a coworker that is having a problem", my answer was "disagree", because it depends on what I'm doing, and whether the coworker can figure it out on their own and learn something, but they're just asking me because they know I know the answer (happens all the time!) But because I "disagree", I'm now marked as an antisocial cretin. ;) Marc
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Nelek wrote:
was it online? I now am curious...
Yeah, google Pearson "Workplace Personality Inventory" test. You have to pay $29 if you want to take it yourself. Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote:
You have to pay $29 if you want to take it yourself.
So I've to part away with cold-cash on BS :rolleyes: not that surprise me X|
Yusuf May I help you?
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Marc Clifton wrote:
I "May not be consistently pleasant, good-natured, or cooperative"
Marc Clifton wrote:
bullsh*t
I don't know...seems quite accurate.
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Oo! Oo! Let's give one to MM on a Saturday night! :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
After watching 2 hours of the shreiker playing tennis :laugh:
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
