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Yes, you do need a degree. However you react in this artificial situation in which you are grouped up with seven stranger has no bearing on your performance as
by bjourne 5y ago
Yes, you do need a degree. However you react in this artificial situation in which you are grouped up with seven stranger has no bearing on your performance as an engineer. Furthermore, if you had a degree in psychology and wanted to perform an experiment like this you would need to seek approval from an ethics committee and they would turn down your request because the experiment is fucking stupid. Whoever devised this "IBM Asshole Test" is the real asshole here.
- fatbird 5y agoThe test wasn't to determine your performance as an engineer, it was to see if you demonstrated bad behaviour working in a group under pressure. You could be a great engineer and I'd still pass you up if, in this test, you were rude and abusive, or impatient and condescending to the rest of the group.
- Closi 5y agoYou need a degree and an ethics committee in order to do a simple group task interview?! We are seeing how people can work in a team to complete a simple task to help a hiring decision, not replicating the Stanford Prison Experiment. Do we need professional actors and casting directors to judge the role-play excercises? We should probably get journalists to do the interviews too.