Amoebacorp Employment Test is hilarious. And it is probably effective. While I am not a huge fan of the drag and drop navigation interaction on their most recent design, their recruitment screen questions I applaud. The questionnaire does a great job elliciting work style, knowledge, and opinion from candidates and conveys some of the corporate culture at Amoebacorp. I should take this, but it’s funny because my answer to the first question “red, no blue, ahhhhh…..”.
- What is your favourite colour?
- What is your favourite album of all time? Why?
- What’s your signature ‘dish’?
- If Helvetica is the blue jeans of type faces, what are the tube socks? Are you sure?
- What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
- During the 1920’s the attemps made at the Bauhaus and elsewhere to devise new letterforms all had a strict geometric base. Geometry was the basis to a functional shunning of Renaissance designs, while Fraktur and Germanic craft tradition fo heavy calligraphic typefaces, like Rudolph Koch’s Neuland of 1924, were the mark made by craft tool, rather than an imposed formal idea determined the design. Explain why this is utter bullshit. Show your work.
- Paper or plastic.
- What has been the worst job in your life? Why?
- When should you set a script face in all uppercase?
- If Disney made a new movie called “Chimps Ahoy”, staring an all chimpanzee cast of pirates, what character would you supply the voice for? Please name and describe in detail.
- Please tell us who your favourite creative person is and why. It could be a designer, painter, musician, writer…
- Can design be art? Explain.
- Why should we choose you over the others as the new lead singer of INXS?
- If you had one month with no responsibilities, what would you do with your time?
- “Branding” is (circle one of the options below):
- developing an identity and personality of a product, company or service that manifests itself in a variety of mediums.
- the act of leaving a mark on the ass of a cow using a hot metal poker.
- a witty 30 second TV spot.
- How are you enjoying this quiz so far?
- Is Bruce Mau a massive change?
- Do you remember when Cobra combined all the DNA of all those famous dictators in histor to create Serpentor? And then Cobra Commander lost his job and decided to help out GI Joe?
- Which Dada designer stretched the visual vocabulary of Futurism which he entitled Merz?
- Is there such a thing as a “stupid question”?