What’s the best feedback you got when you DIDN’T get the job?

Re:What’s the best feedback you got when you DIDN’T get the ... by xs83 on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @11:32PM (#13020039)

One (Large) company in the UK years ago - "Our psychometric tests indicate that you are possibly a smoker and we are a no smoking organisation"

Have never even held a cigarette in my life let alone smoked one

Tests included questions like "Johnny had a joint on Friday after work, is he OK to work on Monday?"

"Do you think smokers work to equal levels as their non-smoking employees"

and so on

Pretty sure this was illegal but I was young and had no idea so meh

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Re:What’s the best feedback you got when you DIDN’T get the ... by eon1 on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @11:51PM (#13020135)

Wow, that's.. disgusting. And also damaging to their own hiring practices, by the sound of it.

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Re:What’s the best feedback you got when you DIDN’T get the ... by CmdrSprinkles on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @05:04AM (#13021450)

Possibly illegal, but the mention of being younger makes me think this is less for a "real" tech job and more for a "normal" job or a code monkey position where you really just need semi-competent people who can fill seats and do a modicum of work.

When I was younger I applied for a lot of jobs like that (supermarket, bookstore, data entry) and dealt with automated quizzes like that. None were quite that blatant, but even in my late teens I understood a lot of the questions were about risk assessment.

So it stands to reason that a huge concern with this was keeping insurance premiums down.

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Re:What’s the best feedback you got when you DIDN’T get the ... by voycey on Friday November 25, 2016 @12:25AM (#13034572)

They were pretty much all code monkey jobs, it would have been my third proper coding job and they were a software house so it was your average Java code shop.

Either way it is still a "Real" tech job, just for an asshole company

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