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Not sure if any of these will help or if you’ve seen them already

Technical tests for testers?

The jobs market in Belfast is pretty busy right now. A lot of companies are looking for testers. A lot of those companies are also adding technical tests to their interview process. I think technical tests are becoming a lot more common, more than in Belfast for sure. In your experience of looking for testers what kind of technical tests have you set? What were you hoping to achieve by setting them? I’ll start off with my own example, it’s not a test per se. I used the idea behind my blog…

Does anyone do any practical interview tests?

We are hiring developers, and there are practical coding tests that we give them so we can see how they approach coding. We then ask questions afterwards to cover other areas, so its a good mix. When I do tester interviews, I give them a user story with a number of ‘holes’ in it, and ask how they would test it. I want to see if they read it well enough to ask about some of the functionality which is not that well outlined, give suggestions for improvements and how they would test a story. I st…

Tips for interviewing testers

A discussion I see come up frequently on Slack but not yet on here is one about interviewing experiences. Many of us have been at a stage in our careers where we have had to interview testers. Most of us will have no experience of interviewing people before. Some posts here talk about technical tests for testers and practical interview tests. I was wondering if any of you had any more tips and suggestions for interviewing testers? Do you have a go to set of questions? How do you prepare to int…

And a post to back up what @kinofrost said about interview processes that heavily emphasise logic puzzles:

Hiring processes and emphasis placed towards puzzles and reasoning tests

Today in the testers.io slack channel a discussion kicked off regarding the hiring process of many orgs and the inclination towards using some form of logical or reasoning test to determine a candidates viability for a role. In particular, I raised as a potential candidate, one particular aspect of job hunting I have found frustrating is the amount of orgs which insist on some form of logical reasoning tests or equivalent. These tend to come in the shape of logic puzzles, riddles or some other…