Apparently it is a new trend in this area to give an "IQ test" type assessment. I was told I needed to take an online "programmer assessment test," being told nothing about the test, and was stunned to find not a single question related to programming on the test. Instead the test involved pattern matching, word analogies, poetry interpretation, and math problems up to the algebra level. I thought I might have gotten the wrong test, and then I decided it was a "trick" test of some type and they wanted feedback on the test, which I gave. Contacted the next day that I would not be considered further, I guess I was mistaken. I've since had another of these types of test, so perhaps it's becoming commonplace. It didn't test programmer ability in any way whatsoever.