I was given a link to an aptitude test, of which I completed about 60% in the alotted time. Apparently I passed, according to the recruiter, as the hiring manager wanted to follow up a few days later with a phone interview. This went well and I was called in for an in-person interview some weeks later.
This was an intense 6 hour series of fairly old-fashioned IQ type tests (each lasting 20-30 minutes) with questions on paper mostly of the which-drawing-completes-the-series ilk, but what made this different was the quality of the photocopies where you were not sure if some dot was a smudge or part of the drawing.
I should say there was one well-designed test for which I was given 30 minutes: an essay question on how you'd solve a synchronous/asynchronous messaging problem. It tested reasoning and writing skills quite well I thought.
As a break between the written tests I was given a 15 minute talk about the company by a senior sales manager .
Another employee later grilled me about a tests I completed. He asked me to explain my solution, then kept prompting me to come up with a different answer. Finally that was over and he left.
Then the man who would be my manager came in for the final interview. He said I flunked one of the written tests and asked me why he should consider me. By this point I was mentally exhausted, having had a total of 10 minutes for lunch in the same room I was taking all the tests, and a couple of 5 minute toilet breaks in six hours. I answered something to the effect of they've obviously had success with this interviewing/testing process and I won't presume to tell them how to do their job.
He then bizarrely told me I seemed nervous. Bizarrely because he was nervous and would barely look at me. We wrapped up the interview fairly soon after that. Needless to say, I didn't get an offer.
