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>>winsto+(OP)
I interviewed for their generalist interviewer offer that they were advertising heavily a couple of years ago. I aced the lengthy and nontrivial generalist quiz, and then waited for a callback.

Two weeks later I sent a polite email to check in. No reply. Repeat two weeks later.

About two months later I received a reply that said the positions were filled, but that they would love to offer me as a candidate to US companies. This was useless to me as I live in Europe.

I believe the interviewer position was a sham, and they were just eating people's time in order to get detailed developer data.

>>blunte+Xr
"I aced the lengthy and nontrivial generalist quiz"

I actually think everyone aced it and ends up in the 80-100 percentile group. "This site says I know more than 80-100% of users" is good for word of mouth marketing.

>>Nightl+vC
As I recall, the test had some medium depth questions on SQL, unix shell commands, programming, architecture, and more, and the entire test was timed at 20 minutes iirc.

In hindsight, it was actually a pretty good quiz for judging if a candidate knew a good bit about many different areas of development, architecture, and sysadmin.

I know I aced the test not because they told me I did, but because I knew the answers to the questions.

Perhaps my enjoyment of the quiz and the possibility of having an interviewer role set me up for greater disappointment that the whole thing turned out to be (or seem to be) a sham.