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Operations Director/Chief of Staff — Work Test

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Before you start

Thank you for making the time for this! Before you begin, please read these instructions carefully. If you have any questions, please email (with “Ops Assignment Help” in the subject) before you click Begin. If something breaks, email Simon with “Ops Assignment Help” in the subject, then carry on as best you can.

You have access to an AI assistant for the majority of the exam.
The assessment has six parts, each separately timed. Once you start a part, its clock runs until it ends — it does not pause, even if you close this tab. When a part's time is up, it locks with whatever you've written.
Note that if you finish a section with time to spare, you should not necessarily be concerned, or feel the need to keep writing. In the real world, your written work would be being read by people you report to, and their time is valuable — don't waste it unnecessarily. Note also that on some sections, you may not have enough time to do every part of the task well. That's okay — part of what we're testing is how good you are at prioritizing the most important aspects of a task.
Parts 4 and 5 are exact-answer assessments: attention to detail (18 questions — rule application, quantitative reasoning, cross-checking), then logical reasoning (20 questions across three analytical-reasoning setups). The assistant is switched off for both — they're done entirely on your own, and they are auto-scored. Have pencil and paper ready; a basic calculator is permitted.
Breaks between parts are untimed. Finish a part, stand up, come back when you're ready, and start the next one.
Your work saves automatically to our server every few seconds. You can refresh or switch devices; your code brings you back to exactly where you were.
Don’t put your name anywhere in your answers or in the assistant chat. Submissions are graded blind — the review panel reads your work before seeing who wrote it. Where a draft email needs a sign-off, use a placeholder like “[Your name]”.
When you finish Part 6, your answers and assistant transcripts go to the review team automatically — nothing to download or email.

Use the provided assistant — and only the provided assistant. The right-hand panel connects you to Claude. Use it however you like: ask about the scenario, brainstorm, pressure-test a draft. Note that we have intentionally given you access to Sonnet 4.6, which is far from the smartest model on the market. That means that you should not assume the AI is smarter than you, and should use it carefully. The full transcript is recorded and read by the review panel alongside your answers — how you use the assistant is part of what we're evaluating, since we expect employees will use LLMs in their job (we certainly do!). A transcript showing heavy, skillful use of the assistant is a positive signal, but copying the LLM's writing is a negative signal. Note that AI tools other than the assistant are not permitted.

Internet research is allowed, and you may look things up in other tabs freely. But nothing can be pasted into the answer box. All answers must be typed, in your own words. Paste attempts and tab switches are recorded with your submission. Final submissions are also run through Pangram, an AI detection software that is quite good, and if it flags your responses as AI generated, you'll be disqualified as well. Responses will also be read by a human who works with LLMs every day. Basically — please don't try to cheat.

Set aside the time, silence notifications, and have a glass of water nearby. Imperfect, finished work beats polished, incomplete work.

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Part complete

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The clock has not started. It starts the moment you press Start.

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Session complete

All six parts are locked. Your answers and assistant transcripts have been compiled for the review team — there is nothing more you need to do. Thank you; we read every submission closely.