In high school, I interviewed for a job at Mrs. Field’s Cookies. The manager had me take the Myers-Briggs personality test. About 50 questions in, I turned the computer off and told the guy “it’s just selling cookies,” then walked out.
Yeah, some people over think things. WAY over think things.
For employment now in some places there is a new test that has some bizarre questions that are about what you value most to what you value lease....like marriage, baby, terrorist, slavery, and many others that people put value most to value least??
Don’t remember the name but it’s based on Greek mythology goddesses. I didn’t understand what it was about, but maybe it wasn’t explained properly. The guys who wrote this book got a Pulitzer prize or something, unbelievable.
A security firm I worked for was thinking of using the MMPI to screen applicants, so they had all the project managers take it. I came back as the most “normal” so they scrapped the idea.
When I was in college I took a summer factory job. The foreman asked me: “Do you think you could take me (e.g. in a fight)? I said ‘Yes’. He said, “I’m a big guy”. I said, ‘Yes, power thrills but speed kills’ (the Muhammad Ali line). I got the job. Weird experience.
Interviewed at a well known & respectable company. Hiring manager tossed in a personality test. I later discovered he was an adherent of “Knowledgism”, a group that thinks Scientology had deviated from the true path under CIA subversion.