Once upon a time, I was engaged in compiling a psychological portrait of IT specialists. Hundreds of people took the test using the Big Five method, immediately filling out a 3-page questionnaire, and then conscientiously answering 100 questions on the questionnaire. The numbers turned out so-so, as expected; no new revelations were revealed, the closer to iron, the more the people are in themselves; girls are more sociable than boys. Finally, the most important question remained – passing this test did not give the respondent anything: he could find out that he was a misanthrope much more easily, from his wife or neighbor, and the response message contained much fewer words.

The www.pymetrics.com project compared to my knee craft is like a modern train compared to a handcar. Playing games is much more enjoyable than filling out a multi-page questionnaire. Moreover, in the case of a game, choosing a socially acceptable option is sometimes simply impossible, since it measures objective parameters, such as the duty cycle and frequency of keystrokes, the amount of simultaneously memorized information, and response time.

After passing the test, you see a variety of vacancies that suit you based on your profile. This site suggested that I consider vacancies related to operations, product management, and for some reason front-end development (I didn’t indicate anything like that, I just entered education and the specialty “Project Manager”!). The total number of vacancies in the database is unknown, but the proposed ones arouse some interest due to the big names of the companies and the location of the offices, far from Minsk!🙂

The results are conveniently presented in the form of diagrams. I give my data as an example (I didn’t try to give any socially acceptable answers, and generally look better than I really am… don’t be alarmed – your beloved colleague-husband-father actually looks like this).

Block of cognitive characteristics:

Social block:

Emotional block:

Passed the test? Have you looked at your peak-point charts? Now let’s look and think how useful this can be. Here are the obvious uses:

• If you are at the beginning of your career, you can analyze which areas your skills will be most effective in. https://www.pymetrics.com/explore-careers/

By the way, I once wanted to do something similar for my research, so that, based on BigFive profile data, the test would tell the respondent which IT field it would be better for him to apply to. My results then did not reveal enough statistically significant differences for such advice to be considered scientifically valid.

• Corporations can evaluate potential candidates within 15 minutes, and not only tell what they are like, but also how they will behave in certain situations. https://www.pymetrics.com/enterprise/
• Finally, you can get a job with them as a Full-stack developer or Head of Engineering, if you are somewhere nearby. https://www.pymetrics.com/careers/#fullstack-engineer

Have a good day!