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Re:Ask HN: How do detect a crappy boss / toxic environment w... by CryoLogic on Thursday April 07, 2016 @10:22PM (#11452204)
FYI - Google makes you take a personality test as part of the hiring process now for SDE. Mine was around 3 pages long. Reminded me of Myers-Briggs.
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Re:Ask HN: How do detect a crappy boss / toxic environment w... by eru on Friday April 08, 2016 @01:04AM (#11452666)
Must have been a quite a few years ago?

I never saw any personality tests done at Google.

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Re:Ask HN: How do detect a crappy boss / toxic environment w... by driverdan on Thursday April 07, 2016 @11:45PM (#11452444)
All the more reason to not work at Google.
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Re:Ask HN: How do detect a crappy boss / toxic environment w... by vkou on Friday April 08, 2016 @01:38AM (#11452761)
This is news to me, and I work there.
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Re:Ask HN: How do detect a crappy boss / toxic environment w... by Lawtonfogle on Friday April 08, 2016 @03:08PM (#11457054)
I've seen other places do them before. I do wonder what the personality of my D&D dice ended up being...
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Re:Ask HN: How do detect a crappy boss / toxic environment w... by nunez on Friday April 08, 2016 @01:04AM (#11452665)
lol apparently administering a test is so much easier than asking personality questions and interviewing cultural fit.

so glad I left that place.

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