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by alexyang21 1397 days ago
Yeah I agree that a test that's super long is awful for candidates. We did our best to be objective in grading, so we didn't want to dock more stars based on our subjective opinion on what's considered reasonable.

FWIW my team believes that test designers should strive to scope tests to no more than 1-2 hours (ideally 1).

The reason why there aren't any 1-star tests isn't because they don't exist, but because we didn't think anyone would want to see them. Cataloguing these was a ton of work (we sifted through hundreds of tests). Including the 1-star ones seemed like it would only shame companies who used them.

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I guess what I’m saying is that if that is a 3 star, I’m not sure how valuable the rating is.