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Diagramming tests are often used in the area of Information Technology to assess skills needed in IT roles such as software engineers, systems analysts and programmers.
These psychometric diagramming tests measure the ability to follow complex instructions often in the form of coded symbols and use these like they would use programming commands.
Often the diagramming tests ask the person to use a flowchart and series of rules to solve new problems with.
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These were common for graduate programmes at consultancies. If you've got a techie brain they're a piece of p1ss but they're more for weeding out people with 'ology' degrees that couldn't get a real job and thought IT would be a blast - think most of them become BAs and PMs and go around saying "I'm not technical"
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At client up North recently was told I was lucky, normally they sit contractors in a room to do a test for 30 odd minutes. On telling them that they were lucky because had they have tried that I would have told them to shove it, they queried my attitude. I went on to mention I could provide any number of referees to contact about my abilities if the so wished and also pointed to one guy who had often bragged he had the highest score in their tests and whispered quietly 'look at him, he's lazy and pi$$es everyone off and you yourself would like to see him gone, how come your test didn't highlight that ?'
I did do tests during the start of my career but wouldn't do them now and don't expect to be asked to do them given my experience that can be verified, they prove very little. And clients who give out such tests you may find will lack respect for contractors and may treat like temps.
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At client up North recently was told I was lucky, normally they sit contractors in a room to do a test for 30 odd minutes. On telling them that they were lucky because had they have tried that I would have told them to shove it, they queried my attitude. I went on to mention I could provide any number of referees to contact about my abilities if the so wished and also pointed to one guy who had often bragged he had the highest score in their tests and whispered quietly 'look at him, he's lazy and pi$$es everyone off and you yourself would like to see him gone, how come your test didn't highlight that ?'
I did do tests during the start of my career but wouldn't do them now and don't expect to be asked to do them given my experience that can be verified, they prove very little. And clients who give out such tests you may find will lack respect for contractors and may treat like temps.
Couldn't agree more, I also refuse to do any tests upfront and become very uninterested if they start asking me 'techie' questions in an interview. Fine when they ask ‘intelligent ‘ questions like how you'd approach certain situations, etc.
I get particularly miffed when they ask a series of noobie questions to check that my last fifteen years in contracting was more than just a lucky run.
These sort of companies have a blurred distinction between staff and contractors – not a place I’d want to offer my services to.
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