I've had the "opportunity" to take 2 personality tests in the last several years. Didn't pass either one cause I got so bored during the test, I started answering the questions with alternate answers. They ask the same question in 3-4 different ways, and when I recognized the same question, I would be sure to answer a different way.

Also, the last company that required a test was a diamond sales company. They were scared of theft, so they had a lot of questions about that. But the were many, many questions about sending someone to jail for stealing $10 of merchandise. Maybe something to fire someone, but I don't think jails accept people who stole $10 worth of anything.

The jewlery company was one of the most screwed up company I've ever seen IT wise. Several systems that needed to speak to each other, but didn't. Packages purchased from vendors who did a halfassed job porting their systems from DOS to Windows, etc. I had to bite my lip when the guy who was interviewing me mentioned that they are adding a wedding planning division to the company. They guy that hired to run the division had used an Oracle system before. So this guy mentioned to me that they might do the same thing. Like they could set it up in a couple weeks or so.

PF

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>What a loser company that is (was?). I can't understand companies that hire based on stuff peripheral to the job itself. I guess, to quote Pink Floyd, they look for "a club tie, the firm handshake...a sudden look in the eyes, an easy smile".
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>Since I joined Microsoft last month, I find myself dealing with people (outside my team of course) that would be completely unhireable by conventional corporate standards but who kick ass here because they have a passion for what they do and are damned smart at doing it. And *that* is what contributes to the bottom line. Everything else is superfluous. Any hiring authority who doesn't understand that deserves a good swift kick in the tail.