Ridiculous. I was initially fine with taking an assessment. I have an outlier IQ and I generally do well on these sorts of quizzes. Indeed, I did quite well on the assessment, answering the first 35 or so questions entirely accurately despite thinking the extremely short timeframe was probably discriminatory or at the very least probably unfair to some of the other candidates who may be just as smart as me but just take longer to think about things. Around the 40th question, with about 7 minutes left on the clock, I was presented with a word problem in linear algebra, something along the lines of blah blah blah solve this 2X2 system. This is where I noped out of the deal. I have a math degree and 25+ years of IT experience. I've written a program that find the null-spaces and eigenvectors of extremely large matrices, simply as a thought exercise in optimization. I don't do 2x2 systems. If they arise in the course of teaching, they're simple yet involved enough that the student can solve them while I catch my breath, and if they arise in the course of addressing a real-world problem, I make the computer do the math for me. "bUt WhAt iF yOu DoN't HaVe A cOmPuTeR?" Then I won't be very effective as a software engineer, now would I? I answered C to the remainder of the questions without even reading them, and was told that I had successfully passed the first portion of the assessment. At this point I noticed that the remainder of the assessment was set to take over 5 hours, and that I had not yet had a single human interaction with anyone at the company, much less been offered to be compensated for my time, so I clicked on the little 'X' in the top-right corner of my monitor and made a mental note never to apply for any of their postings again.