I just spent over 50 minutes doing an online test that had to be done before they would look at your resume. It included not only an ethics section (“I think most people steal from their companies- agree or disagree” type questions, some of which were really personal) but an analytics test that you had to do within a time limit and without a calculator. It had some things that were totally reasonable but most of it was not only completely irrelevant to the position I was applying for, but near impossible to do without a calculator or appropriate context, which was not provided. I gave up after 50 minutes, but I was only about a third of the way through.
I was applying for an administrative assistant/ receptionist position. I have over 10 years bilingual CSR experience and 5 years as an admin in a government position. But none of that matters because I couldn't jump through their hour-long barrage of hoops that barely had anything to do with my actual ability to perform in this job, so they won't even look at my application.
It's so disheartening because I feel like I'm having to start from square one like I'm a teenager again, because everyone decided that you have to have a certificate or 10 years experience or an IQ test or political survey just to get them to consider you, despite the fact that if they just looked at my resume it would prove that I had the ability to do the job.