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Testing IT Professionals On Job Interviews?
An anonymous reader writes "After having my university degrees, a couple of IT certifications, and over ten years of work experience in the industry, with 2-4 years of verifiable employment with each employer, working with a wide range of technologies, is it reasonable to ask me to take some test on a job interview? The same companies don't ask other professionals (lawyer, accountant, sales, HR, etc.) to submit to any kind of in-house tests when they are hired. Why are IT professionals treated differently and in such a paternalistic way? More importantly, why do IT professionals accept being treated less favorably than members of other professions? Should IT professionals start to refuse to be treated as not real professionals?"
It's a long boring story why I have test anxiety (among others) and I've been working on it for the last 20 years or so. I'm sure there's quite a few folks like me who have anxiety issues in IT.
There are a lot of people in IT because they can't handle social interaction. It isn't anxiety because of something biochemically wrong/different. It is because IT guys have never had to keep a real relationship going outside of a d&d game. These days, they all think they have aspergers - they all think they're 'special' and shouldn't conform, so they act like they're 'special'.