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I applied to Volvo when looking for graduate schemes in my final year of university and recall having to complete a personality test there. I'm not sure whether
by mrkwse 7y ago
I applied to Volvo when looking for graduate schemes in my final year of university and recall having to complete a personality test there. I'm not sure whether or not that particular test corresponded to the referenced 'method', however it was a series of very arbitrary statements that one had to either agree or disagree with.
None of them seemed particularly useful for determining my aptitude as a software engineer or professionalism more generally. I can still recall this statement, verbatim, which I believe I stated I agreed with:
"I greatly enjoy the saucy and slapstick humour of some television shows"
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- yakshaving_jgt 7y agoI'm guessing this was in Göteborg. I also worked on a team in Göteborg and was presented with this nonsense. I ended up telling the HR manager that this "method" is obviously pseudoscience and a waste of my time, and I ended up leaving the team.
- mrkwse 7y agoYou're right. Was an interesting sounding role and it didn't get my application discarded before a Skype interview, but I didn't get very far in the process and wonder how much bearing my love of slapstick had on their decision to pass on me.