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I interviewed at a place (looking for Scala devs) that had me take a MBTI test after several rounds of (I believe) successful interviews and a take-home coding
by jcadam 9y ago
I interviewed at a place (looking for Scala devs) that had me take a MBTI test after several rounds of (I believe) successful interviews and a take-home coding assignment. I tested INTJ, as usual. I never heard from them again.
Given what I could glean about the culture of the place, I presume the 'Introverted' part of my personality was the issue. Though, you would think a company full of extroverts wouldn't have a problem telling a candidate why he was rejected :D
- tonyedgecombe 9y agoI doubt you can read that much into it, any org that excludes INTJ's is going to find hiring programmers quite hard.
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- notduncansmith 9y agoThey may have had too many inteoverts already and needed to balance things out (though personally it’s hard to imagine giving a test like that any weight compared to actual interactions with a person).
- jcadam 9y agoWhenever I try to fake it and act like an extrovert, I'm pretty sure it comes off fake, weird, and quite possibly creepy in an "uncanny valley" sort of way (i.e., "He's acting like a human being, but something's off").
- ap3 9y agoMost probably no one can tell or even care
- peoplewindow 9y agoWhat kind of programming shop tries to balance introverts vs extroverts and why? I've never heard of this before.