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The Exam
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2011 · Film · 89 min
Directed by Péter Bergendy
Budapest, Hungary, Christmas 1957. The state, insecure after the defeated revolution of 1956 and increasingly put under the influence of a renewed Stalinist atmosphere, has decreed that all security officials must pass an exam to verify their loyalty. But to be actually effective in a shadowy world where suspicion and secrets reign, the subjects must be unaware that they are being tested.
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It sounds like a scene from a movie ("the Exam").
> Worse, once I'd eventually figure out what was going on, and put one of them off of me, a few weeks later another would show up, with another variation.
Start collecting pseudonyms and storylines in a github repo? This could make for an entertaining movie script, where a Skynet-like company uses advanced surveillance technology to triage a talent pipeline.
Startups encounter a random obstacle course and are only recruited after clearing a statistical threshold of surviving economIc warfare. When a candidate says no, they are moved to a different level of the game. All the while, the recruiting algos grow smarter as they generate new startup obstacles and observe how the talent responds.
The Exam experimented with this concept, http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bkdt2Sygew0