I just recently had someone ask me to take an assessment test for a senior developer position. There's always some silly hoop to jump through, so I thought "wh

I just recently had someone ask me to take an assessment test for a senior developer position. There's always some silly hoop to jump through, so I thought "why not". Well I got booted out of the test because I hit Ctrl-C to copy something for the first warning, and hit Ctrl-L (muscle memory) for the final revocation of the test. I just thought to myself ... did I just fail an assessment test because I hit Ctrl-L? The test gets reset and allows me to start back up, only it took 20 minutes off the allotted time for some reason. I didn't even get to the last question on the test. The results showed me scoring in the 96 percentile. So I basically threw 3 questions away on this test and still scored that high. And I skipped one question because it was asking about building/creating msi files on an C#/ASP.Net/MVC assessment. I have no idea why it was there, but I don't regularly build msi executables (although I regularly automate them). And the worst part is that a lot of the questions were inane things like "given this inheritance hierachy, sally adds the new keyword in front of one of the child methods, and then this other code uses this inheritance hierarchy. what is the output?". At no point do I feel like anything on that assessment came even close to assessing my ability as a senior technical person. These were things a college student could have answered just as accurately. I know it's not quite the same thing as a certification, but I seriously dislike assessment tests. Unfortunately it seems like every company has their games you have to play in order to actually get TO the technical folks.