The single most off-putting part of this process happens before you ever speak to a person: a mandatory 40-minute IQ test and personality questionnaire, required just to be considered. In a 2026 job market where candidates are already stretched thin across countless applications, demanding 40 minutes of cognitive and personality testing from complete strangers—before offering so much as a phone screen—shows a striking disregard for applicants’ time. It puts the entire burden of “proving worth” on people the company hasn’t even bothered to evaluate yet. There was zero transparency about how any of the results factor into hiring decisions. The whole thing reads as a filter optimized for the employer’s efficiency at the direct expense of the candidate’s.