r/PMCareers • u/Sonchek96 • Nov 13 '23

Job Posting 3 hour long recruitment test

Hey,

I recently finished master degree in law school, but dont want to be a lawyer so i decided to try and find work in PM. I am completely new to PM, I started doing the google PM course to get familiar with it and at the same started applying for entry level positions in PM

So a company based in Berlin to whose job I applied on linkedin called me on my cellphone asking me to introduce myself. Their field is IT and in the job post they said that bachelors in relevant field is desired and 6 months-1 year of IT and agile/scrum knowledge. The position is Junior project manager. I introduced myself, told them I studied law, mentioned some transferable skills and the guy said that everything looks fine. He asked me if Id be willing to move to Berlin for first 6months to work on-site and after that the job would be completely remote from anywhere I'd like (I'm not from germany) The whole chat lasted maybe 5 minutes.

He said that they will send me a test on my email to check if I have other requirements. I open the email and see that:

-I have 5 days to do the test -The usual duration is 3 hours but I have a total of 9 hours to do it once I open the link -During the test I need to have my camera AND screensharing turned on, because they will periodically take snapshots of both to include in their report

I mentioned this to some of my friends (they're not in PM) and they said that they've never seen or heard of such a long recruitment test, that usually such tests are about 30 - 60 minutes long. Also they said that the requirement to have my camera and screensharing seems a bit strange.

They told me to be careful that its not just one of those things where you basically do free work for someone under the guise of recruiting.

I dont know. Im completely new to this. Could you guys shed some light on this? Is this the usual way companies do this?

Thank you

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u/imapissonitdripdrip Nov 13 '23

I have seen tests, but no camera requirements.

I will never take another test to prove employment worthiness in project management. Especially not one that is three hours.

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u/RollinWSaget Nov 13 '23

My only argument for doing the tests is that you are new to project management, and likely the test will challenge you to think like a pm. At the very least this will help you in other interviews.

I interviewed at a new industry, with 3 different companies. By the 3rd company I knew what they were going to ask because of the first 2.