Did another part of the IBM recruitment process, the IPAT web test, apparently infamous for being quite difficult. It... was, but also not. There were two parts of the test, each 18 questions @ 2 minutes each. First was number series, then there was "word problems" or simply just, normal maths problems you might see in a high school maths book.
Number series I think I did pretty well for like half of it, then it went south to where I couldn't even guess at what the answer was.
At first it's stuff like, find the next in the series of;
2, 6, 14, 30, 62, ??
Then I got something like 6, -40, -35, -60, 5, 5, 0, 2, ?? by the end which makes no sense to me. Not exactly one of the questions I got, I don't recall it 100%, but almost like that. Just no rhyme or reason to it.
The maths problems were straight out of high school. Kind of makes sense since all employee potentials do this regardless of position. Unfortunately, they were timed (2 minutes each), and I haven't touched high school maths since... well high school.
Either I didn't remember exactly how to solve a question and wasted a lot of time trying to recall things, or time ran out just before I could finish the solution. One question the time actually ran out just as I had selected my answer and was moving the mouse to hit submit.
I think I did enough as a developer applicant, if I'd tried say for an economics position, I know my application would hit the dustbin right about now.
Still, fucking maths man. Not even difficult stuff. I'm disappointed in myself, because I used to know this so well. It's like forgetting how to ride a bike in my eyes.
