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Uh, I dunno? Is the implication that I'll have less patience for taking tests each time I change a job when it's the Nth time?

Maybe? At 5-6 years out of school, I personally don't mind tests. Sometimes I actually really like tests (e.g., I've started watching youtube vids of Putnam problems, like doing daily problems on brilliant). I can imagine time to study becoming more scarce if I had a family, but I was under the impression that changing jobs was something that's gonna take a healthy amount of time regardless.

To be clear: I think you can have bad tests, and I imagine I'd find it frustrating if I was boxed out of a lot of jobs I thought I'd do really well at because the unrelated test keeps me out. But I don't think needing to study inherently makes a test bad.



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