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I don't mean to be derisivs but at that point - testing for reasoning, understanding, personality - Why stick with a software tool?

You'd be better off arranging to play a strategy, preferrably collaborative, boardgame.

One day I'll use Pandemic as an interviewing tool. I wonder of it'd work as a pre-formal interview stage




I've been to group interviews where they pretty much do that. Randomly divide all the candidates into groups, give them a task, see how they work together.

I can't say I enjoyed the experience - and I've no idea how good it is as a tool - but it was illuminating to see how people treated each other.




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