I just completed a “power assessment”.
For those unfamiliar with psychometrics, a power assessment is a series of questions increasing in difficulty and under a time limit. Specifically, it’s a deliberately impossible time limit. You’re racing a clock you cannot beat, with the goal of getting as many right answers as you can.
Companies use them to test your general aptitude. The number of questions you complete, how fast you competed them, how far you got, and how many you answered are plugged into a formula and an aptitude score is generated.
And they are fucking insane.