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Just got sent a request to complete a test to apply for a job… How should I respond?

For the blissfully unaware: the CCAT (or Cognitive Aptitude Assessment) is a bullshit “IQ” test companies try to get potential employees to take to prove they'll be a good fit for the job. It's a 50 question test that you're supposed to complete in 15 min (18 sec per question). It has questions like finish this complex pattern of shapes, solve this math problem from 8th grade, match this obscure word to its equally obscure synonym, find which of these strings of numbers has a perfect match out of 10 other strings of numbers… And worse There are all sorts of flaws in this test, obviously (being discriminatory against people with dyslexia, people whose first language isn't English, and people who didn't have traditional American education are the obvious ones), but it's also insulting. I haven't gotten an offer, I haven't spoken to anyone from the company, I don't even…


For the blissfully unaware: the CCAT (or Cognitive Aptitude Assessment) is a bullshit “IQ” test companies try to get potential employees to take to prove they'll be a good fit for the job. It's a 50 question test that you're supposed to complete in 15 min (18 sec per question).

It has questions like finish this complex pattern of shapes, solve this math problem from 8th grade, match this obscure word to its equally obscure synonym, find which of these strings of numbers has a perfect match out of 10 other strings of numbers… And worse

There are all sorts of flaws in this test, obviously (being discriminatory against people with dyslexia, people whose first language isn't English, and people who didn't have traditional American education are the obvious ones), but it's also insulting. I haven't gotten an offer, I haven't spoken to anyone from the company, I don't even know if I want the job, and they want me to take a test proving myself to them?

Fuck. That.

I want to send a response to the company that sent this that truly captures how I feel about this. Suggestions?

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