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by threwawaysoff 1995 days ago
TB raised a huge red flag when they said "[I] received one of the highest scores on the quiz they ever saw."

I immediately thought: they tell this to everyone, this is some sort of deceptive tactic, and I cannot trust them.

I never followed-up because I wanted nothing else to do with people who were patronizing and lying to me.

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I found their quiz very easy except for a couple of questions, which I think I answered correctly anyways. I got the same message. You have probably hit the max score as well.
Yes, it was basic. And self-esteem head-pats don't do much for me except arouse a feeling of being patronized and raise suspicions.

All-in-all, this doesn't seem to do the clients justice if they don't throughly test to see what prospective candidates are made of by pushing their real-world problem-solving abilities, intuition, knowledge, and expertise.

My conclusion is to dissuade the use of TB as a candidate or as a hiring manager.

If you mean the online quiz, that is a screening funnel for the video interview, which (as of some years ago, don't know about now) was fairly involved.

The online quiz itself wasn't difficult if you knew what you were doing, but it seemed well designed to discern clueful candidates from those who needed to brush up. I know people who took it and didn't pass.