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Actually I am a big fan of it.

But I'm not a fan of people stating that see these kinds of tests as an attack, or see it as something which is unnecessary. There are a lot of people out there are unable to answer these questions, even with "google". And most of them are either unwilling or unable to improve themselves.

I'd rather have a very eager "junior" who loves what he does, and works hard to understand and develop him/herself than someone "senior" who knows a couple of tricks and is too arrogant to do these kinds of tests.

You keep people if: * they can improve / if they learn * if the colleagues are nice * and the product is interesting, aka they have meaning * management is done reasonably * there's a future for them

this is why startups are popular (learn lots of things, meaningful, good upside) as well as corporates (carreer path is flexible, good management, etc).



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