1. After applying, you are sent a CCAT test directly through ondemandassessment (35 mins of your precious time on a pointless test) 2. For reasons unknown to anybody except I presume the recruiter, you either get selected to move forward or not. You don't get a score or anything and even if you get it, it is not clear whether you'd pass or fail. So far with transparency. 3. I guess I was lucky to get through and chatted with a recruiter. He was ok, trying to judge whether my SQL skills are good enough. How he figures this out is beyond my comprehension. He mentioned I'd be meeting with the CEO after the test. The position reports directly to the CEO?! They should have scaled better given the size of the company at present but who am I to say :) 4. Again, luckily, I was sent the next step, a Data Analytics Framework test (limited to 70 mins) through codesignal. Both tests are a joke and disrespectful for any experienced candidate. I don't see how you can judge someone's character, experience and knowledge through some standardized test but again, that's beyond me. The Data Analytics test in particular is for a data analytics role or an Excel bee that crunches numbers all day long. The test itself was flawed. CodeSignal tricks you with a practice question that is a super simple SQL statement. The test itself include 3 problems. One SQL problem in a mocked DB environment which looked pretty convoluted at first and two others which included 4-5 csv files with data that is connected. You need to understand how the data is connected (no context provided beforehand) and then answer some questions. Since I was thinking I would have a mocked DB environment, I didn't prepare anything and when the test started I had to power on a DB instance, dump the data from the csv files and create the DB model. That took a significant portion of my time which I should have used to solve the problems. Eventually, I ran out of time, as you might have guessed. Again, how you can test someone's tech knowledge through data analysis is beyond my comprehension. Unless you apply for a data analyst which was not my case. 5. On the test, at least, you get a result after you finish. Whether that would be enough for moving ahead is ... you guessed it right ... not clear of course. You are in someone's decision power to move you through or not. 6. You've been guessing very right today. I got a rejection email after a few days. Why I was rejected, I have 0 clue. I presume it was an unsatisfactory result on my test. But nobody was kind enough to provide you with that feedback. Which is pretty common, you spend X amount of time, in my case ~3 hours of tests and recruiter call, in order to get an automated response which was lacking empathy and lacking accountability (the recruiter could have put their name at least at the bottom, after all we chatted for 30 mins together). My take from this whole process spoke quite negative for the company. The compensation and benefits were pretty good though. I am lucky the robotized recruiting process kicked me out as I can imagine what an Array of incompetence the company is inside.

The application itself was longer than most, and included psychological and interpersonal questions, which I thought was refreshing at first since it seemed to show that the company cared about emotional intelligence and culture. I was wrong. After applying you receive an automated email asking you to to take their "CCAT and Emotify assessments", which are stated to take 35 minutes. They will take at least an hour, so beware of that. The first test is a middle school IQ test, asking you to find percentages, do basic algebra from word problems, find the next number in a sequence, and identify shapes. It's inappropriate for white collar professionals, I haven't heard of anyone taking a test like that outside a big box retail chain. The second part of the tests is a psychological assessment based on emotions. The emotions are symbolized by photographs of actors acting out those emotions. You have to discern what emotions the actors were told to indicate, then choose which "emotion face" matches the scenarios or words given to you. The emotional exam was given in 3 parts. Part 1: You're shown a face, and two emotion words. You have TWO seconds to identify the emotion each face is feeling. There are at least 20 of these. Part 2: A situation is described, as in "Amy finds out that Carl presented her work as his own, and got lauded for it. Amy feels:" Then 6 faces are shown on a separate screen (the question and the answer choices were not possible to view simultaneously). You are shown either 6 faces by the same person, or 6 random faces. It appears that they sometimes double-up on the emotions, but it's hard to tell because, again, these are pictures of bad actors pretending to have these emotions. Part 3: Part 3 was a short video game about your first week of work. You read a scenario and then made choices on how your character acts. The game narrative continues through an entire week, handling scenarios like someone stealing credit for your work, and committing crimes. After completing the hour of intelligence and emotional exams, I was completely ghosted. No form letter, no rejection, no contact. I reached out to their recruiting and leadership on LinkedIn and was ignored.