Math problems are a problem for job-seekers, employers say

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218. Your sense of entitlement is stronger

I don't like corporate welfare either, but basic job interview techniques are way far away from being "corporate welfare".

Why should a company be expected to take the effective results of twelve years of public education for granted without doing a little specific testing based on their own needs?

Even apart from the supply/demand issues of the current employment situation, which make getting paid for being interviewed and tested ludicrous, what would prevent people who had no interest in taking a specific job at all coming in to be paid for the "work" of being interviewed?

Of course, if potential employees thinks that their time is far too valuable to waste on other people's interview questions without being paid for it, that's their right, and they're perfectly free to sit at home in their parent's basement without a job.