Working Prophet

(All the test questions in this volume are short-answer questions, you only need to write down the answer, please complete the answer within 60 minutes)

Q1: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Q2: What is the biggest difference between humans and animals?

Q3: What are the fundamental reasons for the different development speeds of different ethnic groups on different continents?

Q4: Why did Rome fall?

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Q100: Why can paper clips bend?

After getting the test paper, Li Yu briefly scanned the questions on it and was stunned. Then he turned the paper back to the first side and carefully checked the header of the test paper.

After confirming that this was indeed a written test question from this company called Third Century Consulting Co., Ltd., he frowned.

Recently, Li Yu has been busy with job-hopping. He checked various companies to submit resumes, and also found some friends to help with internal referrals. In two and a half months, he has participated in more than 20 rounds of interviews and written tests.

Generally speaking, the written test of most companies is a personality test, with professional knowledge assessment plus some practical tests and the like.

The most inexplicable written test question Li Yu has ever seen was asking him if Iron Man and Bruce Wayne went to war, what impact would it have on the A-share market the next day... This question is already ridiculous, but if you insist on it It can be regarded as assessing the job seeker's logical thinking (nonsense) and adaptability.

The test paper in front of me can only be described as outrageous.

Li Yu didn't understand at all why he needed to know how Rome fell when he was doing management consulting. Could it be that the company thought that Constantine XI, the last emperor of Eastern Luo, would still be among the clients in the future? Not to mention that these one hundred questions not only involve history, but also cover a variety of subjects such as philosophy, sociology, materials science, etc.

Li Yu even saw some geographical and climatological issues in it, such as "it belongs to the subtropical high pressure belt, why the rainfall in East Asia is much higher than that in North Africa and West Asia".

It once made him suspect that this company had no intention of recruiting people at all, and was just calling a few applicants to make his boring workplace life more interesting.

In fact, a recent college student who came to apply with him had already dropped the paper in his hand after reading the questions, and then slapped the gel pen in his hand on the table again to express his dissatisfaction.

Then he picked up his shoulder bag and left without saying a word.

There were four candidates left including Li Yu in the No. 3 conference room that was used as a temporary examination room.

One of the girls with short hair must have just graduated from campus, and her face looks like a typical good girl.

According to Li Yu's experience in the workplace over the past three years, most of these girls have a good temper, obediently obey the leadership, and are very careful in doing things. The disadvantage is that they are too obedient, push one step at a time, and have less autonomy.

In addition, I don’t know how to refuse, I am not very good at protecting myself, and I am easily fooled by my boss.

If there is another male leader with evil intentions, he will probably be eaten to the bone, but this has nothing to do with Li Yu.

One of the rules of survival in the workplace is to stay out of your own business.

If the school is an ivory tower, then society is a forest.

Every small animal plays its own role in it, some are predators, some are prey, and together build a whole set of food chains with distinct classes and order.

The short-haired girl didn't shoot up like the previous boys, but looking at the weirder test questions on the test paper, she probably also deeply felt the malice of the question maker at this moment, her eyes turned slightly red, and she clenched her teeth. She pressed her lips to keep from crying on the spot.

After a while, I probably felt that I couldn’t answer a few questions even if I tried hard, so I finally gave up.

Pack your belongings and leave silently.

Now there are only three people left in the meeting room, a man in his forties with shrewd eyes, a bearded man who looks like an old fritter, a woman in her early thirties who is slightly fatter, looks tired, and obviously lacks sleep, plus Li Yu.

The other two people's first reaction after seeing the questions on the test paper was similar to Li Yu's, they were both stunned.

But then the bearded man rolled his eyes and said proactively, "This paper is a bit strange."

Li Yu didn't answer his question, he had already picked up his pen and started to answer the questions.

Sixty minutes and one hundred questions, the time is quite tight.

It's not like he didn't know that the content of this written test was nonsense, but he couldn't help it, the other party gave him too much.

The basic salary is 17,000 a month, and the performance bonus is calculated separately according to the project. Although I don’t know how much of the bonus part is likely to be cashed out. After all, more and more companies like to make fuss and play word games on it when recruiting. .

But even the base salary of 17,000 is already attractive enough, not to mention that Third Ji will pay each employee full five social insurances and one housing fund, which alone can instantly kill at least 80% of private companies in the market.

In addition, Li Yu also did a lot of homework before coming here. He searched for this company on Tianyancha and Maimai. Except that there is not much information on Maimai, there is no problem in other aspects.

If I insist, it is too clean. It was established in July 2019, and it has been almost three years now. There is not a single legal lawsuit information on Tianyancha.

Law-abiding... doesn't look like a company.

In addition, as a consulting company, Third Century does not advertise much. However, Li Yu still found some of their previous cases on the official website, and followed the clues to find several companies or institutions that had served Third Age.

Later, on the official websites of those companies and institutions, they also found press releases about their cooperation with the Third Era.

In short, after preliminary investigation, Li Yu judged that the salary package offered by this company was relatively credible, which was why he came to take this written examination.

Even because of the impact of the epidemic, it is quite strange that Third Ji still insists on choosing an offline written test.

But I have applied to many companies, and I have encountered boss Li Yu who even deducted half of his salary and saved up half of his salary at the end of the year. He also claimed that he was thinking about the employees to prevent employees from having no money to celebrate the New Year. Now this requirement is naturally unacceptable. A piece of cake.

As for the various and imaginative test questions on the paper, Li Yu is not an interdisciplinary talent, and he certainly cannot answer them all. In fact, there are too many knowledge points involved, and they are very complicated. Li Yu probably can't answer them all. Anyone can do it.

So he first selected the ones that he could write, and the rest he could catch, and the ones he couldn't catch were left blank.

This is the test-taking habit that Li Yu has cultivated in hundreds of exams since he was a child, and it has almost become his instinct.

For the first question, Li Yu thought about it and chose the egg.

The reason is simple. Chickens evolved from dinosaurs, and all known dinosaurs lay eggs, so eggs must appear before chickens.

For the second question, Li Yu first wrote down the object, hesitated for about two seconds, then crossed it out and rewritten the language.

In the third question, Li Yu wrote about the environment.

Li Yu didn't know how to answer the fourth question, so he wrote the universal answer of "internal and external troubles" in an attempt to fish in troubled waters.

The fifth question......

Seeing that Li Yu didn't pay attention to him, the bearded man was not angry and continued to talk, "Have you noticed that the questions on this paper are not closely related to the position we are applying for, and the HR who just brought us to the conference room did not ask We sat separately, and we were not allowed to talk while answering questions."

"What do you mean..." The woman on the other side who was a little sleep-deprived was also troubled by the questions on the test paper, and was quite moved when she heard Mustache's words.

"That's right, the written test this time is apparently testing our astronomy, geography, humanities and politics, but in fact it's trying to test our ability to cooperate." Mustache said his inference confidently.

"This paper is obviously not something that can be done by one person, just like most of the work on weekdays cannot be done by one person. Many companies attach great importance to the team attributes of applicants when recruiting people.

"So I suggest that the three of us form a temporary group, and each of us chooses the questions and answers that we are good at, and then gathers the answers together, and we will work together to complete this assessment."

The sleep-deprived woman was moved by the mustache, but seeing Li Yu at the side still didn't respond, she hesitated again, thought for a while and asked, "But, but... If we have the same answer, will we be rejected?" Is it cheating?"

"It doesn't matter," Mustache said with a smile, "We can openly explain to HR that this paper was answered by our collective efforts, and if we want to pass it, everyone will pass it together."

After a pause, he asked again, "Where did you see the recruitment information this time? I received the invitation from the boss's direct recruitment."

"Me too," the sleep-deprived woman felt that she had found an organization. "So proactive, and the salary is so good, I suspected it was a liar."

"Yes, the recruitment information should be sent out in groups, and our written test is scheduled for ten days later. I guess many people have already taken the written test before then, but the recruitment is still going on, which shows that They haven't found a particularly suitable candidate yet, probably because the previous applicants all worked alone."

The sleep-deprived woman was completely convinced by the mustache, she turned to Li Yu and said, "What he said makes sense, let's do this paper together."

Li Yu still didn't raise his head and said as he wrote, "The Third Age will only recruit one person this time."

After hearing this, Mustache answered quickly, "After passing the written test, it will be good for the three of us to compete fairly during the interview."

"Yes, fair play." The sleep-deprived woman echoed.

Li Yu finally stopped the pen in his hand when he heard these words, looked up at the mustache, then at the sleep-deprived woman, and said to the latter, "Give up your own advantages and use your weaknesses and other people's strengths." A head-on collision, how is this fair?"

Seeing that the sleep-deprived woman was still hesitating, Li Yu sighed, "How old is your child? Who usually takes care of it?"

Having said this, Li Yu believed that the other party would be able to understand it as long as he was not hopelessly stupid.

Hidden discrimination in the workplace is everywhere. When it comes to the interview round, if she is not supported by extremely good written test results, she, a breastfeeding mother, will definitely be the first to be eliminated.

After being reminded by Li Yu, the sleep-deprived woman suddenly woke up. After that, she stopped mentioning teamwork and lowered her head to answer the questions.

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