A lot of companies do assessments on their candidates, including intelligence tests.
At one company I worked at, they used the Wunderlich. I scored off the scale and my manager was advised not to hire me because of this but hired me anyway. I then went on to hire 3 people under me, all of which also scored off the scale on the Wunderlich.
No surprise, we were the most productive department in the company, and no surprise, when layoffs came, my team was let go.
People who are still at that company 10 years later still tell me that me and my team were a Golden Age for the company and everything's gone massively downhill since then.
At one company I worked at, they used the Wunderlich. I scored off the scale and my manager was advised not to hire me because of this but hired me anyway. I then went on to hire 3 people under me, all of which also scored off the scale on the Wunderlich.
No surprise, we were the most productive department in the company, and no surprise, when layoffs came, my team was let go.
People who are still at that company 10 years later still tell me that me and my team were a Golden Age for the company and everything's gone massively downhill since then.
"The world is fucked, I am fucked" is pretty much the conclusion. It's not pride, it's rather a sense of embarrassment, shame and disgust. They went in with youthful, naive optimism, guessing what's the worst that could happen? Death, huh? Well, the worst doesn't have to happen - *bad* is enough. How about shooting civilians who were renitent to obey your orders? Or civilians who looked like they pulled a gun, so you shot them first? Children maybe? Or getting shot by a child with a real gun? How about having good relationships with people in a village, and then suddenly there is a trap laid out for you, which your comrade triggered and got maimed by? You think they are traitors? Why are you there? Because you signed up for it foolishly. So who are you REALLY angry at? Yourself? Your parents? Your friends? The government? Everybody - optimism turned into pure cynicism and nihilism.