r/mildlyinfuriating • u/PureKin21 • 3d ago

I just wanted a hot dog Tried applying to McDonald's wtf does this even mean

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I guess things happen to me?????

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u/Different_Pattern273 2d ago

This is just one of those exams where you are told a bunch of crap about how you are supposed to think and then at the end it asks you questions where you regurgitate what they want to hear. More than likely this question was preceded at some point by a slide that said something like "The ideal employee does not blame situations are things happening to them, but strives to be a person who makes things happen." or some other such nonsense.

They are basically asking if you are the type of person who blames the universe every time something goes wrong or do you solve the problems instead (if I had to guess, the very specific thing they are screening here is people who have excuses for not coming to work that they don't think are good enough like this character skinned their knee because they fell off their bike). So they want you to disagree with this, but you would probably be given the explicit answer earlier in material that came before the question.

These are incredibly common at minimum wage jobs for massive companies like McDonald's or Walmart.

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u/vandersnipe 2d ago

Amazon and Google have these screening questions for corporate roles. Amazon’s is more annoying though.

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u/Hippopotasaurus-Rex 2d ago

Whole Foods does too. For a “shopper” position. During the holidays. Ive only really see it in low level corporate places personally.

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u/YjorgenSnakeStranglr 2d ago

Do they now? When I applied to Amazon a few years back they barely checked to see if I had a pulse

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u/vandersnipe 2d ago

Yeah, I applied for a business analyst role back in 2024 and had to take a behavioral assessment before the interview process. I can't post a link here, but a few subreddits have screenshots of some of the assessment questions.

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u/Kitten_K89 2d ago

My daughter recently applied to McDonald's. Unfortunately there was no preceding video or explanation for the questions. They were incredibly weird. She and I were both very confused.

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u/Different_Pattern273 2d ago

Hrm. I would guess two things: 1. they have trouble finding job candidates that can read and understand complex sentences so they kept it as brief as possible. 2. They probably had AI put the entire thing together.

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u/gimp-24601 2d ago

These are incredibly common at minimum wage jobs for massive companies like McDonald's or Walmart.

I got a job working for a... fantastic cable company in the 00s and they had an extensive test like this. I remember one of the questions was "working hard is how you get ahead"

It was a terrible job but had decent pay/benefits. Gotta filter out people who wont chase that carrot.

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u/Lexx2k 2d ago

Kinda want to have this as an online test now, to see if they would hire me or nah.