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.
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I worked for a huge huge company you've totally heard of. We had a large event where we were all given bells and mallets and told to ring them as a team to make beautiful music. My coworker beat his bell flat.
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.
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Yeah, at best, that would result in a whole lot of "I didn't dream last night" from me.
Or I have this recurring dream about the head of HR performing oral sex on me.
That would end that really quick.
I frequently dream about dying in horrific ways.
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
one of my clients is a company hq'd in an EurAsian company near Russia.
They rarely fire anyone, and instead just move people around. It's pretty common outside the US.
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