I could see the idea of a written initial interview maybe being okay or useful, but wow, this particular one is awful. I think I'd rather write a bunch about ho

I could see the idea of a written initial interview maybe being okay or useful, but wow, this particular one is awful. I think I'd rather write a bunch about how it's terrible than answer it. This is a full page of huge open-ended questions. To really answer all of them fully for someone highly qualified could be book-length and take more than a week of full-time work to produce. No way I'm doing that for any company. A good written interview would have to be time and length restricted to like an hour or two and a couple of pages max. There's a tremendous number of questions about high school life. This is basically absurd - I graduated high school decades ago, nothing that happened there is relevant to my potential work performance. I'm a very different person from who I was then, and I don't much care to dredge up a bunch of irrelevant old memories for a job interview. The high school and college questions seem to fly in the face of the claimed goal of diversity and elimination of bias too. I think of it like, imagine the schools in Season 4 of The Wire. In a truly bias-free process, someone who went to a school like that and decided to pursue the straight life and get into tech and did pretty well at it could get hired. How do you think whoever is reading this is going to react if your real answer to how you spent high school was "Academic achievement? Lol. Nobody gave a shit about that, we spent our time slinging dope and laughing at the teachers." Or "College, what? I spent 5 years in jail for dealing drugs. I decided the gangster life isn't for me, but computers are cool, so I taught myself coding. Turns out I'm actually pretty good at it, but I don't really have time or money for college." Maybe they're actually okay with that, but the questions they're asking signal that anyone not from a white-bread background with good high school and college experience need not apply.