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My former employer did some personality test as well, but they where smart enough to not use it in first screening - and i did NOT have the result of the test when doing the first person to person interview with the candidate. If test and personal experience did not match it was never a showstopper, but might result in some extra questions in the final interview round.
Overall not the most useful tool ever, but as used it didn't hurt - and was good at making you think if you asked the right questions.
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Reminds me of an interview I've done, where I was asked to write down a function for a (given) simple task. Even though it was only a few lines, I managed to fit in at least half a dozen 'neat tricks', one of which I had to explain to the interviewer because he'd never seen it before. In the end I was told I'm overqualified... 
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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Yes, I know how you must have felt!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Overqualified = "we don't want to pay you what you are worth"
Kelly Herald
Software Developer
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Indeed, and tbh I can actually understand that. But it's still frustrating!
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: What do they want, robots?
Yes
Richard Andrew x64 wrote: Has anyone else taken such an online assessment?
I doubt I can ever apply for a job anymore, as I absolutely refuse to take any kind of online test. If you feel the need to administer a test after reading my CV and perusing my Code Project articles, then I do NOT want to work for YOU.
I was very impressed that my current employer felt the same as I do - there was an in-person interview and I was essentially hired on the spot.
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Thanks Marc. I really respect your opinions on the industry.
I feel better now.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I've taken these from way back, in person, all day.
You have to know the company culture (I guess).
The questions I remember include:
- How much beer do you drink per week?
- What do you prefer: a tidy desk or seeing a pretty girl?
It's called Industrial Psychology.
(I got the job, 99th percentile ... and WAS bored once the project was over).
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I hated the process of hiring from the other side of the table and would happily abdicate the process to HR. And yet like Marc I would not participate in any online assessment for a job.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Today I've seen a video in youtube that made me laugh.
Technically speaking it's interesting, the power that thing must have must be amazing (computing power or megaton power it's up to you and clearly forget about spending a dime on heating this next winter).
The first 13 seconds are a small cut of the last part of the video...
I've laughed seeing his reaction when powering up that thing (and yes, it's a computer): PC 8x RTX 2080Ti + max 3TB RAM - YouTube[^]
Have fun.
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We have a couple of HP Proliant 'pizzas', that sounds just like that when turning on... There is a 5-10 seconds of high spin, when all the fans running at maximum speed and making awful noise...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I bought one of those years back when the company I worked for went through an acquisition and they were trying to get rid of them. I thought I'd be able to do something useful with it, given it had Xeon CPUs and hot-swappable drives (which was a pretty new thing at the time), but in hindsight, the 1GB of RAM limit made it unusable...and the fans, as you said, are so loud I can't even leave it running in the basement at night while I'm in bed two floors away.
Worst computer I've ever bought.
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I posted a question in the Mobile forum on 7/17? Can any admins tell me why it was removed??
Here: Discussions - Mobile1 Discussion Boards
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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My guess is that it went through the spam moderation queue, and may have been accidentally marked as spam. I have restored the message.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Thaks. I'm still having the problem so I reposted. I'll remove it
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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I had 4 images opened in the Windows 10 app, and the damn thing was hogging up a GIG oF memory!  There has got to be a better app than this SLOW & HOGGY POS!
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The old Photo Viewer from Win7 (8?) is still there, and launches nearly instantaneously. Hitting the left/right cursor keys to quickly cycle through a bunch of image files is also just about as quick as can be. It's not sophisticated, but that's exactly how I want it to be.
The URL I have in my notes points here:
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/14312-restore-windows-photo-viewer-windows-10-a.html
[Edit]
It's been a while I've looked at that thread, but how it grew to be 56 pages in length, I have no idea (and I'm kinda scared to find out). All I know is that I have a small-ish .reg file that I've been importing into all of my new Win10 installs, and it has always worked without a hitch for me.
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Maybe you won't be able to use it in the future[^]
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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What does my post about using the registry to set the viewer for image file types have to do with disabling Windows Defender by using the registry?
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Maybe they expand their "security" feature to more "windows own products" for your security.
They could create a new registry class and block manual changes within the whole directory. Which would affect your procedure
Seeing how they act lately... would not surprise me that much. At the end they know what we need better than we self
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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There's so much that would break if they went down that path the whole OS would become unusable. I'm not worried one iota about that one.
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was going to say just the same ... 
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