I was applying to a developer position and the recruiter sent me a url to a web application for online tests, this was very long time ago when they weren't so popular, and this was the first time I was sent one.
The mail with the link arrived while I was at work. They told me that it is time-limited so I wanted to wait until I got home to be be free of distractions, but I was getting curious.
I though I can log in with another email and take a look at what kind of questions would I get, so being still in the office I logged in using a very old email address I had: '[email protected]'. I went through the questions without thinking too much, and finished very quickly.
10 minutes after that I got a call from the recruiter:
- Hey, have you finished the test?
- (What a pain! I though.) No, I'm waiting until I get home after work to do it.
- OK! (hang up)
5 minutes after he called me again:
- Are you lying to me?
- Why would I do that?
- The client told me that some guy called 'crazy bastard' has finished it already, but it wasn't you. Did you give the test to someone else to solve it for you?
- Actually I tested the website, logging in with a different email just to get familiar with it, but I expected to do 'the right one' later when I get home.
- That was a single use link, you only had one chance to do the test!
- Ups! I didn't know that.
- Now the client believes that you were trying to cheat. Sorry I think you fucked up!
- Why would I give it to someone else to do it on my behalf but pretending to be someone called 'crazy bastard' instead of myself? That is the opposite of cheating. Please tell them that I'm sorry for the confusion, tell them the story and that my intention was to prepare as best as I could for the task. Pleeeeease!
- I'll see what I can do...
Later in the day he called me again to tell me that the client though the story was to stupid to consider it cheating, and since I got 90% of the questions correct in half of the time, they wanted to proceed to the next interview round.
Maybe 'el principe gitano' does, he is a Spanish folk music singer. He liked Elvis Presley's 'In the ghetto' very much but didn't know a word of English. He sang it anyway... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGSgAfJQsic
The mail with the link arrived while I was at work. They told me that it is time-limited so I wanted to wait until I got home to be be free of distractions, but I was getting curious.
I though I can log in with another email and take a look at what kind of questions would I get, so being still in the office I logged in using a very old email address I had: '[email protected]'. I went through the questions without thinking too much, and finished very quickly.
10 minutes after that I got a call from the recruiter:
- Hey, have you finished the test?
- (What a pain! I though.) No, I'm waiting until I get home after work to do it.
- OK! (hang up)
5 minutes after he called me again:
- Are you lying to me?
- Why would I do that?
- The client told me that some guy called 'crazy bastard' has finished it already, but it wasn't you. Did you give the test to someone else to solve it for you?
- Actually I tested the website, logging in with a different email just to get familiar with it, but I expected to do 'the right one' later when I get home.
- That was a single use link, you only had one chance to do the test!
- Ups! I didn't know that.
- Now the client believes that you were trying to cheat. Sorry I think you fucked up!
- Why would I give it to someone else to do it on my behalf but pretending to be someone called 'crazy bastard' instead of myself? That is the opposite of cheating. Please tell them that I'm sorry for the confusion, tell them the story and that my intention was to prepare as best as I could for the task. Pleeeeease!
- I'll see what I can do...
Later in the day he called me again to tell me that the client though the story was to stupid to consider it cheating, and since I got 90% of the questions correct in half of the time, they wanted to proceed to the next interview round.