Alfa Laval’s pymetrics Assessment: What Alfa Laval Actually Says

Yes, and Alfa Laval says so itself. Its "How we hire" page states it applies pymetrics assessments at the start of most of its recruitment processes and that upon application you might be asked to play the assessment games. The same paragraph appears in Alfa Laval’s own job postings in September 2026, including experienced-hire roles outside Europe, so this is current rather than historical.

Alfa Laval has never published its battery, and no verified candidate report names it, so we will not invent a list. What is known is the vendor: pymetrics ships a standard set of short behavioral games covering effort and reward, risk taking, attention, memory, emotion recognition, learning and fairness. Practicing that full standard battery is the safe preparation, and your invitation email is the only authority on what you will actually be sent.

On application, when they are sent. Alfa Laval applies them "at the start of most of our recruitment processes," and postings such as the US Career Pathways cohort say you will be invited to play upon applying. Several postings call completion mandatory. Note the exception: the Stockholm Graduate Program 2027 posting does not mention pymetrics at all, so for that program the games are covered only by the company-wide "most of our recruitment processes" wording.

Alfa Laval reviews applications on a rolling basis, then runs an exploration call with a talent acquisition partner about your background and the role. Later stages "might also apply further assessments including personality questionnaires, ability tests and business cases" — Alfa Laval does not say which programs get those or who supplies them. Then come structured, open-ended interviews with the hiring manager plus one or two stakeholders, and a final interview with the hiring manager’s manager focused on your potential to grow. Alfa Laval aims to give a decision and feedback within a few days of that final interview.

As of September 11, 2026, two: the Stockholm Graduate Program 2027 for the Food & Pharma Division, a 13-month program starting September 2027 with a November 30, 2026 deadline and a December screening, January case study and February final selection; and the US Career Pathways Program Associate 2027-2028 cohort, a 10-month program beginning August 2027 across five US sites, posted September 3, 2026 with no closing date. The Lund Talent Program, the Lund Energy graduate program and the UK & Ireland Graduate Programme are all between cycles.

Alfa Laval’s own wording is that the results "are not right or wrong" and are used to give insight into your suitability for a role — pymetrics measures behavioral traits against a role profile rather than marking answers. What genuinely hurts candidates is meeting the format for the first time under timer pressure and misreading an instruction screen. That is the fixable part: play each game once beforehand so nothing about the mechanics is new.