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It is worded opposite of what you say:

> You're in the top 3% of engineers! (We should know, we've interviewed thousands.) We can totally help you get a job if you're interested.

It is worded as if scoring well in this is an accurate predictor of engineering skill.

It may be an accurate predictor of who will respond to ads.

> Just for fun

...or to retarget engineers on FB and other channels :)

Came here just to confirm this. I got all right but it doesn't seem to be valid test for hiring. Fun quiz! :)

Yup, it's not a test for hiring

Can confirm. I'm a terrible programmer but got 100%. I guess it selects for people with very unfocused careers and no real specialism.

One could as easily argue that it selects for people who closely follow Hacker News - I got 15/15 too, but only because I'd previously seen several of the more esoteric languages mentioned here.

It seems that some of the same questions were difficult or tricky for many people, i.e. the Kotlin question or the Lisp question (which were the two that I missed as well). It would be great to see the stats on this one. Thanks!