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Pre-Employment Skill Set and Aptitude Tests?

Posted by Cliff on from the applicant-screenings dept.

stumbler asks: "I just had a lengthy conversation with my boss and co-workers about the value of giving skill set tests (programming ability) and aptitude tests (like reasoning or logical ability) to technical employees before they are hired. (We currently have no such tests.) For those that work in companies that require pre-employment tests, have you seen an impact in the quality of technical employees hired?"

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  1. Re:Some I gave during interviews by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Wait.
    Let me see if I've got this straight.
    You graduated from High School 25 years ago.
    That would put you in your early 40's.

    And yet you write:
    Before we can hire you to write UI widgets in Java, please derive the quadratic theorem. NOT!
    "NOT!"?
    Shouldn't you have abandoned this immature idiom sometime around 1990 or so, if not earlier?

    That kind of terminology really makes you seem intelligent.

    NOT!