Does anyone work in a place where this is a real thing? I don't know if I've ever heard of an employer making you take a random IQ test.
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2026
124 points (96.3% liked)
me_irl
7827 readers
2905 users here now
All posts need to have the same title: me_irl it is allowed to use an emoji instead of the underscore _
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
My wife's workplace tried to have them do dream journaling and then had them come back and report back to the group on what they dreamed about. This is a fortune 500 company that you've absolutely heard of before.
Hehehe never apply to Canonical. I sat 6 interviews, 2 psychometric evals including an IQ-adjacent evaluation, submitted a take home assessment and was asked about my high school math grades just to be offered a job with a more advanced title paying 20k less than what I was currently making. I only sat it through because I wanted to post the offer on glassdoor/levels so others didn't have to waste their time either. (And because I wanted to see if I could pass their famously grueling application process)
So yes I've seen companies (big ones) do this sort of thing.
Whaaat...no matter the sale, I'd just go and leave with those abysmal requests. And I complained back in the day that an application had to include so much personal data already 😁
The company has a special education program for their workers? Huh
Yes? Is that weird? If you’re inclusive and providing representation to otherwise less abled and neurodivergent and hiring them as employees, seems like the right thing to do.
I think the weird part is finding a company that's actually inclusive and provides said representation.
Even if they did kind of wield it as a cudgel in an attempt to punish this employee.
I'm surprised a company would do this