What kind of student were you in high school. Tell us in 5,000 words or more.

Now take this personality test. Now do this other crazy thing.

Hah I stopped there too. Who thought that was a good idea. Why do they have a job while I don't lol

What on earth. That’s definitely the sort of thing that would make me close the tab immediately.

What are they trying to select for here? Are they hiring all 18 year olds, or does someone in their 30s, 40s, 50s or beyond need to justify themselves slacking when they were a teenager in the eyes of management.

On the other hand, a lot of people that did well when I was in HS are the same who would diligently perform this sort of busywork no questions asked.

> or does someone in their 30s, 40s, 50s or beyond need to justify themselves slacking when they were a teenager in the eyes of management.

That's exactly what they expect.

Anecdote: MS was part of the tail-end of my interview process and after I brought up that it was a bit much asking me for justification of decisions I made decades ago, he stated - I'm paraphrasing here - that he believes that someone's decisions at that stage of their life are consistent with how they will react and respond later on, which is why they ask the questions to begin with. I nope'd on out afterward.

Only advice I can give is beware companies that cultivate a cult-of-personality around one or multiple execs. You will be required to drink the Kool-Aid and - when you invariably don't - that's that.

MS was Mark Shuttleworth?

A friend of mine, a person with a Master's degree and multiple years of extremely relevant work experience, dropped out of their process after multiple interviews because they would not continue without having her high school report card. Absolute clown town.

who even has access to their high school report card? I suppose maybe I could contact my high school? But I didn't keep a copy of my own grades for more than a week maybe even in school.

I was signing up for EMT classes and they required proof of English comp and algebra. My highschool takes 3 weeks to approve a records request. The community college would not accept my passing grades in differential equations or tech writing and I had to pass tests instead. Turns out the emt class doesn't even require those competencies but the comm college did.

So they are actively discriminating against those who have suffered a life shattering event in which personal documents were lost? (Eg house fire)

Sounds rather evil....

Report card??? This utterly stinks of ageism. I wonder if my school district even has that, approaching 30 years later...

What a strange requirement. I can't imagine how I'd get that card. I'm guessing the record doesn't exist anywhere. Another commenter talked of how this is not ok for people who lose their paper records in a disaster. But is "high school report card" even the sort of record people have and keep? I have nothing like it in my personal records. I don't think I have anything at all from my school days.

Wait I thought you mean they ask questions of a high-school difficulty level. You mean they wanted to see your actual high school grades?!?

Yes and I was applying for VP of IoT.

I saw an entry for one of the positions there on LinkedIn. The application page wasn’t too bad at first glance since it doesn’t involve registration like Workday or Taleo. But as I began to scroll down, I saw those high school questions and that was enough for me to nope tf out of there.