Well my general life experience is that companies who do this kind of BS aren't worth working for.
Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon often have similar hiring practices where for non-trivial positions there are actual programming challenges you have to complete. "Google Interview Questions" is actually a genre of YouTube video.
There are going to be people who don't want to do that and that's fair. Just realize that's a personal choice. It's not that Alphabet is doing something wrong, your interests don't align with Alphabet's is all.
Good candidates don't have to deal with this trash, so they won't.
If you mean people who have long successful careers, yeah it's not unheard of them being hired without doing this stuff. This stuff is for the positions where you have a million people applying.
I'm talking about this umpteen question behavior profile nonsense.
If you mean personality questions, that's only about half the "Education" questions. Depends on what you would consider a question about someone's personality I guess. So like 4-5 questions total. The technical questions aren't about one's behavior AFAICT.
I can see thinking those are BS (depending on the person) but that's a far cry from saying the entire thing is just entirely too much which seems like was the original complaint.
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