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find myself shying away from companies that use mttest - soured


Posted: Dec 09, 2010

I find myself shying away from companies that use mttest.  Something about that method of testing and scoring just doesn't sit right with me.

Nope, it's not just you. - Same here. nm

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Feel the opposite re MTtest - Redwriter

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I really like MTTest and was very glad to see it catching on over the years. Not that it's ever any great pleasure applying for MT jobs at any time, but prior to MTTest, there was such a wide variety of incredibly insane written tests from each company, and equal variety of test tapes/digital clips to transcribe--and equally crazy. I find MTTest a great improvement. I'd like to hear why you dislike it. (I don't work for them, I really would just like to hear your reasons:)


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