I just took couple of LinkedIn quizzes and was wondering do they even matter?! 🤔
Mohammadjavad Raadi
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Apparently, Linkedin is using their resources at Linkedin Learning (formerly Lynda) to create pass/fail tests with adaptive questions for specific skills. If you pass the timed test and find yourself in the 70th percentile you receive a badge.
You can choose whether you’d like to display this badge on your profile to represent that you’ve passed the assessment for that given skill. If you don’t pass an assessment for a given skill, you’ll be able to retake it one more time after three months and failed tests are not displayed on your profile.
This re-imagination of skills is far more reliable than someone checking a box on your profile to endorse a skill. I do like the idea that skills on LinkedIn profiles are becoming reliable but will recruiters take the time to consider this? There hasn't been much discussion about this on the web. Please let me know what you think.
Mohammadjavad Raadi
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LinkedIn tests get me to take into consideration the nitty gritty of my skillset so I can adequately pass them. A passed skill test gives you so much confidence. I just hope recruiters will turn their attention to it and often request linkedIn profiles during recruitments rather than CVs.
Just mention it when applying for jobs. I will.
I feel the same way. Thanks
I used to not give any value to any of these assessments/challenges. Hackerrank, Leetcode, StackOverflow... I didn't even care to keep my github clean. I've been a developer for 5 years... why should I care what my status looks like?
One senior developer said something profound to me. He said it was evidence - a history of work. He said the biggest regret was not leaving a public digital trail of work behind, and wish that HE started a decade ago. He had to fight tooth and nail to get his company to get his role, and felt it would have been easier if his background was searchable online.
So while YES... in the moment, it seems kind of useless and unnecessary. But if it takes you 15 minutes, why not? It's another time-stamped piece of proof that you know your stuff. And while it won't directly lead to a job... in the aggregate, it's helping support your story that you're a good developer.
I once had a recruiter warn me in advance that a particular technical interview would be tough. When I got there the interviewer told me that we would just skip the technical interview because he'd seen some of my information online. That's a one-off. It hasn't happened since, and he might have just been really tired. But anecdotally it shows that there is value in the footprint. It makes some interviewers realize that they don't need to ask you lots of trivia questions.
After the first question on the C# quiz I stopped and sent feedback on why none of the multiple choice answers made sense. That was the first question. If the person who wrote the quiz can't formulate a coherent answer to why classes have properties then they don't get to evaluate my skill.
It's like going to school all over again.
I don't trust LinkedIn, and I don't trust recruiters who use LinkedIn. I won't even maintain a LinkedIn account because I get enough spam without one already, and Microsoft isn't paying me to provide them with data.
These tests are fucked up.
Some of the questions are so big that you even don't have time to read and understand them. So it's more depends on luck than on real skill.
On other quizzes with I have 95-100% results, here - less than 70%, just due to lack of time. That's ridiculous.
LinkedIn believes that I don't know CSS3 despite 8 years of development experience and despite the fact that all my software works correctly and customers are satisfied. Yeah, well, LinkedIn is more fucking obvious to you)))
I know that I am totaly late for the party, but now that more quizzes are available
you can see how low quality they realy are. I would never take this seriously, the questions are either just stupid or have nothing to do with the skill or how you use it IRL. But this is just my opinion.
How is the test in terms of difficulty?
I just failed the Java quiz (LOL). It was kinda hard because you have to know very intricate details about how the compiler works. To me, this kind of quiz proves nothing. It's nothing more than a flair badge on your profile. Useful for recruiters probably, useless to the companies hiring you. Our job is much more than memorizing syntax.
edit: I also took the C quiz and passed but I've never written more than 200 lines of C code in my life. Would you hire me based on that information?
Americans are obsessed with tests, though the tests are out of touch with real life.
I took Git and JavaScript. They were both a little challenging but not that difficult.
LinkedIn Assessment question is not standard. its seems you should learn to their Lynda.com tutorial. They do not know how to do question? its all stupid question.