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Re:U.S. Employers Struggle to Match Workers with Open Jobs by chrisbennet on Friday September 01, 2017 @09:23AM (#15148130)
H.R. Interviewer: "Now Mike, may I call you Mike? Pope Julius II is looking for someone to paint the ceiling of the new Sistine chapel. Frankly, I passed on you initially because you didn't have any ceiling painting experience but I've been told to talk to you anyway.

To start, I'd like to ask you to take a test with some Egyptian art history questions..."

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Re:U.S. Employers Struggle to Match Workers with Open Jobs by dabockster on Friday September 01, 2017 @12:24PM (#15149899)
I've had a interview like this. It was for a web dev position at a local business, but the interviewer had used a copy/paste algorithms question from Leetcode that reeked of CTCI influence and "Google used it, so it must be good at filtering candidates".
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