People are right, this sort of job should be sending you a computer.
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Yeah this “job” sounds more like a straight up scam by the second. I bet their employees deal with some kind of predatory and impossibly difficult metric-based pay of calls received, etc. and are constantly “forgetting” to pay people and offer no benefits and have a turnover rate of 12,000% per year
While $10 and a shit day are better than $0, the right job is out there. 100% dodged a bullet here.
such bullshit. If companies want you to have a computer that does more than word processing and emails, they should be providing it for you.
Fuck.
spoiler
"Load test, more like load of shit test!"
Nothing like an AVGN reference to brighten my mood...
what the fuck kind of job is this?!
It is a customer service agent job.
Mfw I call the customer service and the agent cant load 4 youtube videos in a 9 person google meet and my customer experience is shattered. How will you redirect me to a different department without 64 cores at 400ghz
Such bs gymnastics just to get a job
I was thinking this, too... it's a customer service representative job. I was thinking to myself, "Does my PC really need to be able to run 4 1080p YouTube videos in the background with me being in a group call with 10 other people for me to serve as a call agent? It doesn't seem reasonable," but I can't argue with them.
What are these youtube videos for?
If you just blocked youtube in your hosts file would it actually break any functionality?
These YouTube videos are not actually used on the job. Nowhere in the actual job would we need to actually run 4 1080p YouTube videos. It's just something they do to push the limits of my processor, so they had me test this was 4 stock 1080p nature recordings.
Ah ok so it's some kind of adhoc benchmark test but I'm not clear on how they get the results. Sounds like they are just getting you to read or screenshare task manager on a google meet call?
Yes, that's exactly what they do. I screenshare my task manaer.
Run me through the whole test. They get you to open 4 youtube videos in 1080p. Did they decide the videos on the spot or can you predict them? Were all the videos on screen at once? Did they watch/make you set the videos resolution? Were the videos playing on screen at same time as the taskmanager? Did/could you mute the video audio? Did you have to do anything spontaneous during this process?
The test:
- They have me select any basic "nature footage" YouTube video that can run at 1080p and 60 fps.
- They have me duplicate it running at that exact resolution in 4 different tabs, but they are played without sound.
- As the videos are playing, they look at my task manager as a minimized my window on the side to see how it changes in utilization and speed.
- They note an estimate of where the utilization and speed most consistently sit and then evaluate whether or not my PC meets their requirements based on that.
Ok so if you were interested in cheating this test I can brainstorm a few ideas.
- Create your own basic nature videos favoring simple low detailed scenes from a low res & low fps source then upscale to 1080p 60 fps and upload to youtube. Don't include audio tracks. This could reduce the load while not being that noticeable on screenshare
- Use brower scripts to change the videos to lower resolution. Would take some experimentation to do this in a way that isn't spotable (usually these work on page load but you could delay them. Then there is issue of youtube maybe showing an indication of it changing.
- stage manage the screenshare if possible. I'm not familiar with google meet but if you're able to get it to accept obs as a source then you could show a prerecorded taskmanager window at low utilization and/or prerecorded footage of the youtube window already rendered at your desktop resolution.
- false task manager application showing low utilization. I don't know this exists off the shelf.
- I'm assuming you can't physically borrow a faster PC since that would have been the first thing you would have done but have you considered if you know anyone with a beefy PC that will let you remote into it or a vm on it?
These are some clever ideas, but I'm probably not gonna try again because it's more trouble than it's worth. They'll likely have some means of catching on to it. Hell, they were even reluctant to retest me at first because they thought there was not gonna be any improvement whatsoever, but I managed to convince them to try once more and shit still didn't work.
You gotta follow your gut but I will say that my intution is someone who uses youtube videos over screenshare as a benchmark rather than an actual benchmarking tool will not have the presense of mind let alone the means to notice a deception.
I agree with doing deception but another idea even if you aren't going to try again would probably be something like https://github.com/alextrv/enhanced-h264ify with hardware decoding for better performance on an old system if you want, YouTube absolutely loves to crush the bitrate on ~~modern codecs~~ everything anyway >:(. This test also just seems totally unrelated to the requirements of the job lol, at least somewhat more rational "2GHz" i guess...
classic bs! im sorry you have to deal with this 
If it weren't for the state of the job market I'd say you dodged a bullet
Nowadays I'd be happy to get fuckin shot
Yooo that's horse shit
What kind of CPU does your system have? I have some oldish laptops that might be better.
AMD Ryzen 3 3250U with Radeon Graphics
Based on what I can find online it should be faster. It's a 2018 13" MBP that I got from work. They don't officially support windows 11, and the Mac OS won't be getting security updates soon. IDK if that'll be an issue. Hacking 11 onto it shouldn't be hard.
I'll have to see if I can find it first (I'm moving soon so it's packed away), and I don't have a charger that I can give you. But if you're in the US you can have it.
Unfortunately, they require Macs to be from 2020 or newer.
That's lame. Think if you put windows on it and told em it's a pc they'd be any wiser?
I can't be too sure! If it's possible for me to get the Mac within 30 days, I could try, as that's the timeframe they gave me.
Good news and bad news.
Good news: I found it.
Bad news: within 10 minutes of it being on it's kernel paniced twice.
I'm going to assume this computer is broken. Sorry for getting your hopes up. If I can figure out what's wrong and fix it then I'll let you know. But my hands haven't been working so well lately so disassembling a MacBook is not something I want to do for fun.
Wow it crashed a 3rd time just while I was typing this out. This thing might be really broken.
Dayum.
I appreciate you for looking.
I got quite a few interviews lined up next week already, and I'm really just going to give those my all... as I have been doing with every other one.
I doubt something will come of this, but I'd love to see it.
That is some fucking bullshit.
I feel for you, comrade. I've had the equipment issue more times than I can count. Like, if I'm working for your company, you should be providing everything I need to do the job.
Can you use someone else's hardware while pretending you got an upgrade?