I went for a job interview on Wednesday. And I failed. 32 of us, out of 34 failed the screening.

I arrived at the venue at 7:37 AM. That's some minutes before 8 AM that we were told to arrive. I felt they might consider punctuality among the qualities to be used.

At 9 AM, we were addressed by the director. And he told us they would be employing anyone who scored a 100% on the short test we were to take. Anything less than 100, you're disqualified.

Before we were served the question papers, we were told we have only 1 minute. The questions were a bit cheap. 10 questions in all. So at the start time, we all began rushing to beat time. Some of us finished the 10 questions, others couldn't.

When the HR manager collected our scripts, he went through all in a jiffy. And he separated only 2 scripts out as he went through them. Only those 2 had passed.

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