Chapter 1286 A Booklet for Tenda's Recruitment Exam

Thursday, November 1st.

It was Tenda's recruitment season again, and Wu Bin from the Human Resources Department was, as usual, monitoring the exam. Looking at the bustling crowd outside the exam hall, he felt a sense of感慨 (gan kai – mixed feelings).

Every Tenda recruitment exam allowed Wu Bin to directly feel the rapid development and changes of the Tenda Group, this behemoth.

He was one of the first employees to enter through the Tenda recruitment exam. Back then, the Tenda recruitment exam was just a prototype.

Although compared to other companies, Tenda's recruitment exam was already very formal and large-scale from the start, it only contained the most basic content compared to later recruitment exams.

The Human Resources Department naturally wasn't idle. Because the Tenda recruitment exam was the most critical step in selecting talent, it had to be controlled from the source.

The question bank was updated every year, with new questions added, and the content of various professional knowledge areas became more detailed.

Moreover, the examination process was more rigorous, and the level of confidentiality became higher.

Starting from the last Tenda recruitment exam, the content of the exam had undergone some special changes.

That is, the content of the Tenda spirit test was added to the written test questions for the first time!

This was something that Wu Bin particularly promoted.

Because Wu Bin felt that if an employee had gone through many steps such as the written test and the person-in-charge interview, and had already entered the company for an internship, it would be a pity if they were ultimately eliminated because they failed the Tenda spirit test.

For Tenda, this was a waste of resources. For the interviewees, it was a wasted effort. It was a bit too cruel.

Therefore, Wu Bin proposed adding some Tenda spirit test questions to the written test stage. For those who didn't conform to the Tenda spirit, they would be screened out early on from the beginning, so as to minimize this unpleasant situation for both sides.

Of course, as an interpreter of the Tenda spirit, Wu Bin knew that everyone, including himself, understood the Tenda spirit in a relatively one-sided and incomplete way. The person who truly grasped the Tenda spirit comprehensively and completely was President Pei.

In other words, the Tenda spirit test questions created by President Pei were the real test questions.

In order to prevent mistakes, Wu Bin only created some relatively certain questions with relatively standard answers based on his own understanding of the Tenda spirit and combined with President Pei's original questions.

These questions wouldn't account for a high percentage of the total score in the entire written test, probably only about 15 points out of 100.

Wu Bin believed that this proportion was just right.

It wouldn't account for too high a proportion, leading to the inability to measure the examinee's basic abilities, and it could also play a certain screening role.

Don't underestimate the 15 points. Sometimes, the written test score for a key position really comes down to a point or two.

Because more and more people were participating in the Tenda recruitment exam, everyone had been practicing beforehand, and their abilities were very strong.

Given that everyone was excellent, sometimes it really came down to these few points.

This had a screening effect: among people with similar basic abilities and professional skills, select the group of people who were more in line with the Tenda spirit.

In the Tenda recruitment exam six months ago, this Tenda spirit test question had already appeared, and it had caused some controversy among the candidates.

But it didn't trigger widespread discussion online.

Because these questions didn't directly state that they were "Tenda spirit test questions," but were cleverly scattered into different types of questions.

Most people just felt that they suddenly encountered an easy question while doing the test, leaving them with some impression at most, but not a very deep memory.

And most people didn't even realize the meaning of these questions, and didn't delve into their deeper connotations. Many questions were more worthy of discussion.

For example, the Tenda Games Department, every year the last big question would be a game design question, requiring the design of a game that was completely different from the games on the market, given a few key conditions.

Every year, this question was the most discussed.

Therefore, in the face of so many unique questions, the Tenda spirit test questions that were scattered and interspersed into various modules didn't seem so obvious.

Wu Bin was very satisfied with this, thinking that it was a small contribution and optimization he had made in the Human Resources Department.

Wu Bin put away his examiner's badge and went outside the exam hall for a walk.

Every year, he liked to take a walk like this during the recruitment exam, to see the various states of the candidates and feel everyone's enthusiasm when participating in the Tenda recruitment exam.

Sometimes this "undercover visit" could also yield unexpected gains.

For example, during the recruitment exam in November last year, Wu Bin discovered that some institutions were already creating and selling real questions and analyses for the Tenda recruitment exam as teaching materials.

For example, "Detailed Explanation of Real Questions from the Tenda Employment Exam," "Tenda Employment Exam Universal Guide," "Prediction of Professional Knowledge Questions for Various Positions in the Tenda Employment Exam," and so on.

And these weren't derived from internal leaks, but were organized by many training institutions who saw a profit to be made.

Similar situations actually exist in many exams. Training institutions specifically organize people to register, and after entering, they don't answer the questions, they just memorize them. Each person memorizes a small section, and when combined, it's a complete set of test questions.

After that, these institutions organize people to answer the questions and compare the scores with those of people who took the exam normally, and they can also figure out roughly the standard answers.

Of course, this is only limited to the objective question part. If it's a subjective question, the deviation would be too great.

This is also why it's not recommended that candidates for the national civil service exam spend too much time doing the essay questions, because those aren't real standard answers either, but answers written by people organized by training institutions themselves.

Looking at them does improve you, but not by much.

Relatively speaking, the standard answers for the objective question part are more meaningful.

This situation is basically unavoidable. If candidates memorize the questions by heart, you can't give them amnesia when they leave the exam hall, right?

Hit them on the back of the head? That wouldn't be right either.

The only way to effectively delay this situation is to not announce the specific scores, but only announce the admission results.

But doing so is clearly more harmful than good.

Because for most objective questions, with the questions, there are roughly answers. The questions can't possibly violate objective laws and common sense.

And not announcing specific scores easily makes people feel that the exam is irregular and is playing behind the scenes, and fairness will be questioned.

Compared to scoring high by practicing questions, most people are more accepting of the lack of transparency in the exam.

President Pei's Tenda spirit test questions are completely closed, but after all, that was done by President Pei himself, and it's aimed at the company's internal intern employees, so no one would have any questions.

But the Tenda recruitment exam is, after all, a recruitment面向 (mian xiang - targeting) the entire society, and it's not realistic to make it completely closed.

Therefore, the only way is to update the question bank every year and reduce the impact of practicing questions on the exam as much as possible.

But it can't be reduced too much, because preparing for the exam is also a very important part of the exam itself.

Wu Bin wasn't very resistant to the existence of these teaching materials. Their existence is still somewhat reasonable, just like the state hasn't directly banned those national civil service exam tutoring institutions.

As long as these teaching materials don't mislead people.

Wu Bin wandered around outside the exam hall a few times, and saw many more touching scenes of people cheering each other on and agreeing to enter Tenda together.

As he walked, a person wearing a coat suddenly approached him and said in a low voice: "Hey buddy, here for the exam? Want some teaching materials?"

Wu Bin inexplicably had a sense of déjà vu, like being asked "Hey buddy, wanna buy this?"

Looking at this teaching material vendor in a coat, Wu Bin suddenly felt a little sympathetic.

Buddy, you're just now coming to sell teaching materials, isn't it a little late?

This is like peddling swordsmanship to a swordsman who is about to go to Mount Hua for the Sword Tournament; this stuff can't be learned quickly.

"The exam is about to start, isn't it too late to sharpen your spear at the last minute?" Wu Bin asked.

The teaching material vendor smiled mysteriously: "Not late! What I'm selling isn't regular teaching materials, it's the answers and analyses for the 'special questions' that were newly released in the last Tenda exam!"

Wu Bin was stunned for a moment: "Special questions? What's that?"

The teaching material vendor explained: "Didn't you do the real questions from the last time? It's those questions about whether or not to work overtime and the like."

"These questions are scattered in different sections, although their positions are different, they can roughly be classified into one category, and they haven't been seen in other exams, so we all call this 'special questions'."

Wu Bin was stunned for a moment, and instantly realized.

Isn't this the new set of Tenda spirit test questions?

They were noticed so quickly?

On second thought, it's quite normal to be noticed, after all, the style of these questions is completely different from other questions, like a firefly in the night, it's hard to ignore.

It's one thing that it didn't form widespread discussion online, but it's another thing whether or not anyone paid attention to it.

Tenda's question bank is changed every time, so even if these institutions can use the process of elimination to determine some answers, it won't be helpful, but the key is the analysis.

This teaching material vendor actually said that they have the analyses for these spirit test questions?

Could it be that the Tenda Spirit Manual has leaked?

That's not possible.

The Tenda Spirit Manual that Wu Bin summarized earlier was an internal publication, and only trusted employees could get it from the person in charge. It shouldn't have been leaked to the outside.

As the summarizer of the Tenda spirit, Wu Bin has always attached great importance to confidentiality.

"Give me one." For work needs, Wu Bin felt that he had to buy one back for research.

"Okay, fifteen." The teaching material vendor took out a palm-sized booklet that looked like it only had a dozen pages from his coat.

"Fifteen? You're robbing me in broad daylight!" Wu Bin was shocked.

He had known for a long time that teaching materials were relatively expensive.

After all, knowledge is priceless... It's already good that they're willing to sell it to you, why quibble about whether it's expensive or not.

And the teaching materials are, after all, aimed at people who have a real need. If it's a little expensive, it's a little expensive. Most people have invested so much time cost in the exam, how can they care about these twenty or thirty yuan.

But this thin booklet actually sells for fifteen?

This is simply unbelievable and incomprehensible.

The teaching material vendor smiled slightly: "Buddy, don't think it's too expensive. It's true that there aren't many pages, but a lot of effort has been put in behind it!"

"Think about it, memorizing the questions from the exam hall, then combining the scores to determine the correct answers, and then summarizing the commonalities of the questions from these correct answers to give a universal analysis. That's how much workload!"

"Besides, the Tenda recruitment exam is so competitive. A few points difference may be the difference between passing and failing. Think about Tenda's salary and benefits. Isn't it worth it to buy a dream for fifteen yuan?"

"And this stuff is quick to learn. There are summarized rules in it. You can flip through it before the exam and it will take effect. Do you think it's worth it?"

Wu Bin: "..."

Suddenly, he felt that what this teaching material vendor said made some sense.

"Okay, I'll take one." Wu Bin took out his phone and obediently scanned the code to pay.