by someuser54541 on 1/11/24, 8:02 PM with 9 comments
It seems like the assessment tests are written by a machine and/or scraped entirely from questions in online repositories.
As an example, here's a screenshot of one of their nonsense questions for an Android assessment: https://prnt.sc/waKVQjFoETwr
Almost all the questions are like that. I also figured out that a bunch of the questions seem to be copied word for word from online repositories like https://github.com/Ebazhanov/linkedin-skill-assessments-quizzes/blob/main/android/android-quiz.md.
Tried to speak to a person about all the issues which make taking an assessment impossible, and just got more bots.
I'm sure many are looking for jobs, so figured this would save people a bunch of time.
by z_ack on 1/11/24, 8:37 PM
by muzani on 1/12/24, 4:26 AM
Then I was given the following email: "Congrats on scoring 100% in Turing's basic JavaScript programming test on XXXX, 2019! You completed Step 1 towards being matched with top Silicon Valley companies that want to work full-time with remote engineers."
If I scored 100% on a test I never took, the whole thing just feels like a scam to me.
by armchairhacker on 1/11/24, 8:36 PM
Anyways, I changed the sample testcases so that they tested the function threw an exception for invalid inputs and didn't for valid ones. Which I probably shouldn't have done, because then Turing said I failed the challenge so they couldn't offer me any jobs, and I'd have to retake after 6 months.
...But then a while later, I get an email that I can retake the test due to "test environment issues" (maybe they realized the test was ambiguous, maybe it was just broken, I have no idea). At this point I already found a job.
Then they started spamming my email and eventually WhatsApp, so I blocked them.
by henlo on 1/12/24, 12:08 AM
by kroltan on 1/11/24, 8:29 PM
by sitzkrieg on 1/11/24, 8:26 PM