McDonald's Making Job Applicants Take Weird AI Personality Tests
> Paradox's "Traitify" product, which uses the strange slides to lump applicants into "Big Five" or "OCEAN" personality groups, rating them on how open, conscientious, extraverted, agreeable, and neurotic they are.
For the record, the correct answer is always to be low on neuroticism and high on everything else. The role doesn’t matter; that is always the “ideal” personality and any deviation is a defect that will only be tolerated if they are having trouble filling the role.
Just a rewrite of walled 404 piece:
Service Jobs Now Require Bizarre Personality Test From AI Company
https://www.404media.co/low-paying-jobs-require-bizarre-pers...
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I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take a personality test
I read this as "Weird Al personality tests" and thought its a great idea. More places should be employing based on their Weird Al index, would finally improve the "fun place to work" aspects
Someone really needs to test how these “personality tests” are actually “testing” people. This feels very much like “let’s launder bias by using ‘algorithms’ that do the discrimination because they’re trained on existing bias”
Its simple. They are testing to see if you can do a web search for the expected answers to weird jargon questions from the upper class, which is actually a great prep for a lot of jobs… finding the magic nonsense words to say to people of higher rank is a very important skill. So is disconnecting your logical brain while doing so. A lot of jobs are about acting a role in addition to providing a service or product.
The real lifelong personality test is having worked there. If you come back as a customer fail does not begin to describe it.
Ah, the blue people test. There's a company thats selling these personality tests to large companies.
Any job that requires that you be an obedient little robot will require that you take such a personality test.
"Weird AI personality tests" seems scary, but it's likely many big-corporate workers had to suffer through top management's Myers-Briggs phase, (which is just as weird and just as non-scientific) forcing everyone not just to take the test but to share the results with colleagues. I'd probably also put "Kanban" as another consultant-led pseudoscience money grab that everyone detests.
I can't be the only one who read this headline and was disappointed that in fact they are not letting Weird Al write their interview questions.