Pre-employment tests are always tough to answer and they are designed to throw you off guard by throwing you a curveball question.
Some time ago, a US-based firm created a set of questions that are designed to flush out millennial’s who feel are entitled to something. Modern day America is becoming a country where young people feel they can whine every time something doesn’t suit them. This generation is effectively throwing away the spirit of America out of the window by feeling entitled to an opinion every time something doesn’t go their way – is what these people say.
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That why this US company had enough of job applicants who don’t share the same cultural and political perspectives as everyone else in the industry and created the snowflake test.
The snowflake test is a series of questions designed not to judge an applicant by their skills or willingness to work, but rather judge them by moral and legal standards.
It is a way for companies and firms to determine if they like the applicant or not by enquiring about their political perspectives. The snowflake questions should not be a measuring point for an applicant’s willingness to work or his qualifications. The snowflake questions are an ill-conceived effort to discover if an applicant matches their criteria for hiring. It’s used to discover if the applicants share their political and modern-day American views, and should not be a deciding factor!
What are the tricky snowflake test questions you might encounter?
Unlike most curveball questions designed to throw you off guard, snowflake questions are meant to effectively disqualify you from the job process if they don’t hear what they like. You would be surprised at how many snowflake questions we managed to acquire from various applicants.
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Below you can find the types of snowflake questions
- What benefits should a company offer to its employees?
- What should be the national minimum wage?
- How many sick days should be given to employees in a calendar year?
- How often should employees get raises?
- What are your feelings about guns?
- What are your feelings about employees and clients carrying guns in the workplace?
- What are your feelings about the term “Safe space”
- What do you vision work attire looking like?
- Should a “trigger warning” sign be issued to content that can be considered by many “snowflakes” as controversial?
- What are your feelings about law enforcement?
- How would you handle a hypothetic situation where your high paying client acts unethically?
- What was the last time you cried and why? WOW!
- What’s your favorite type of alcoholic beverage?
- What are your thoughts on the current college environment and what are your thoughts on them as our future workforce?
- Are you entitled to anything at our firm?
- How would you handle a bully?
- How would you feel if your idea was not good enough and shut down?
- How would you act if your co-worker proposed an idea that is not good enough?
- Does faith have any meaning to you?
- What are your thoughts on transgender people?
- What are your thoughts on same-sex marriages?
- Would you ever use a gun?
- You see someone disrespecting the American flag; will you do anything about it?
- What does the word “privilege” mean to you?
