Top Hat Raises $22M to Go After Pearson, McGraw-Hill

Re:Top Hat Raises $22M to Go After Pearson, McGraw-Hill by throwawayosiu1 on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @10:47AM (#13652773)

A friend of mine was selected for a Support Role (that too, a temp one).

They had him and a bunch of other come in on the same day, and write a 16 page exam.

From what I understand, my friend didn't like the atmosphere and was already overqualified so he accepted another position.

But this left a bad taste in my mouth about their hiring practices - but then again, if they are continuing with this, it probably means that it works for them.

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Re:Top Hat Raises $22M to Go After Pearson, McGraw-Hill by omouse on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @10:47AM (#13652778)

What was on the 16pg exam? that sounds ridiculous!

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Re:Top Hat Raises $22M to Go After Pearson, McGraw-Hill by throwawayosiu1 on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @10:54AM (#13652851)

Everything from:

1. how you'd handle customers for various problems? (which seems fair enough).

2. some coding questions (my friend did this in matlab but they wanted him to do it in python).

3. some IQ questions

4. some questions about the platform (which my friend didn't have an idea about as he'd never used top hat before).

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Re:Top Hat Raises $22M to Go After Pearson, McGraw-Hill by softawre on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @05:07PM (#13655801)

> some questions about the platform

I think it's useful to know whether an interviewee who has driven into your place of business is serious enough to spend 30 mins learning your platform.

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Re:Top Hat Raises $22M to Go After Pearson, McGraw-Hill by flukus on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @09:40PM (#13657432)

It's fair if the website has useful content. I've been pinged before for not researching the company after their website basically said "we specialize in absolutely everything".

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