Your next job interview could be playing a weird smartphone game

Candidates hoping to land their dream job are increasingly being asked to play video games, with companies like Siemens, E.ON and Walmart filtering out hundreds of applicants before the interview stage based partly on how they perform. Played on either smartphones or computers, the games' designers say they can help improve workplace diversity, but there are questions over how informative the results really are. To the casual observer, many of the games might seem almost nonsensical. One series of tests by UK-based software house Arctic Shores includes a trial where the player must tap a button frantically to inflate balloons for a party without bursting them. In another, the candidate taps a logo matching the one displayed on screen, at an ever more blistering pace.