I've done this in my past when I was younger and looking for more menial work. I remember distinctly that I had decided my side hustle of repairing PCs for the elderly and doing networking for small businesses would be good experience to support me applying to Geek Squad / Best Buy while still in high school. The moment I finished entering my basic information, their hiring form was a multi-page psychological evaluation, which I did not feel was an appropriate thing to do on a prospective candidate so I noped out immediately.
This article isn't really focused on applying for software engineering roles, but for menial roles. When that happened to me decades ago it was rare, and Best Buy was one of the first companies to do it, now I see my teenage daughter applying to entry level roles and it seems nearly every company is doing these sorts of psych evals, and worse your profile is tracked across multiple employers because the company offering the service is the same.
No wonder people are noping out. Nobody should have to undergo a psych eval done by a computer program, and not even a qualified person, just to be able to flip burgers or stock shelves. It's demeaning, dehumanizing, and it frankly should be illegal.
As an employer in France, the employee has so many rights that you are very conservative on who you hire, and if you can ask for a psycho evaluation, you’re tempted. After all, you want employees to not steal, and the government doesn’t take care of putting those in prison, so you have to filter that yourself.
In theory the diploma should be enough, but the govt doesn’t take care of sustaining the diploma levels, because it’s unfair for some protected groups. So I just fired my first person who I had assumed having a Masters degree in communication implied they could use Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V. Turns out in communication they don’t type much in Word.
This article isn't really focused on applying for software engineering roles, but for menial roles. When that happened to me decades ago it was rare, and Best Buy was one of the first companies to do it, now I see my teenage daughter applying to entry level roles and it seems nearly every company is doing these sorts of psych evals, and worse your profile is tracked across multiple employers because the company offering the service is the same.
No wonder people are noping out. Nobody should have to undergo a psych eval done by a computer program, and not even a qualified person, just to be able to flip burgers or stock shelves. It's demeaning, dehumanizing, and it frankly should be illegal.