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tonysoprano

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Q for hiring managers - Assessments

Recently went into an interview process for an AE role i am very qualified for from a recruiter reach out on LI. First step met with the CRO and it felt like we hit it off, with solidified next steps at the end of the call.


Immediately after, recruiter sends me an assessment link for the hiring company


I usually don't mind these because they are fairly easy


This one ended up being the closest thing to an SAT i've seen since i took it before college. i'm talking algebra 2 type of shit with systems of equations


I finish the thing in an hour, then find out that my results didn't cut it, so i was out


my question for hiring managers - what could you take from these and how effective are they at determining how good I would be at selling your software?


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Sunbunny31
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Sr Sales Executive 🐰
Not a hiring manager, but here to commiserate. If I had to take any serious algebraic tests to sell software, I'd be in deep trouble. And I took Calculus in college. It's just been a minute.
Kosta_Konfucius
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Sales Rep
I would assume Hiring Managers care less about this, but HR is sold these assessment so they have to use them since they spend $X on it
jefe
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Usually companies use cognitive aptitude tests, which are a lot shorter than this and have a variety of types of questions. Usually it's answer as many questions as you can in 15 or 20 minutes, and then you're assigned a percentile.
These are used to determine how quickly people learn and think, and will often correlate to how fast someone will ramp as they can pick up new concepts quickly and think on their feet.
What you did isn't something I've ever seen for anything sales-adjacent, and would NOT be fun. Is it a highly technical role?
tonysoprano
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Sr. AE
lol no its a <100 person software company
jefe
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Could still be very technical at that size though.

Seems like BS either way
BTQ
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Account Manager
That's pretty stupid lol
CuriousFox
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Yeah no thanks. If it's this gras to get the job, what will the actual job look like?
GDO
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BDM
It’s BS. But it’s used to shorten the list of applicants to not have to speak to 100 people
Coffeesforclosers
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Director Sales and Market Development
God damn, thats crazy. Unless you are interviewing for CPA or CFO role i dont want a math genius i want a hungry seller.
Diablo
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Sr. AE
Testing algebra is a crap, some of them test personality which is still relevant.
lowhangersalesbanger
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Director of Sales
Assessments are only as good as the people who use them. A lot of TA leaders just buy whatever assessments their ATS tells them to and uses the ones they are told are "good for x candidates" then they just filter by performance.
Unless the TA team actually understands what is being measured and how it relates to the role, it is just a waste of their money and they are missing out on good candidates.
Beans
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Enterprise Account Executive
I had to take an IQ type assessment for a Med Dev org, without warning, sent over zoom and a clock started.
Wild world.
wwwb2b
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AI Advisor
That's silly. Sorry to hear that. I've been asked to do the same via LI skills assessments (which I passed) and then took a few more relevant ones for future opportunities. As of yesterday (12/3), LI is canceling the whole skill assessments feature altogether...

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