Re:Why you're having trouble hiring developers
by reitanqild on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @01:42PM
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I might be the weird one here but I actually enjoy IQ tests.
I consistently do well on them and if a company give me one I feel it increases my chance of getting the job as I like to think I'm quite a lot better at figuring out stuff than I am at smalltalk :-)
It might help though that none if the serious IQ tests I see here include any writing: they all consist of pattern matching and other puzzles.
In fact thats a major point for a good IQ test I've been told: ideally it should give the same result for equally smart persons even if they were raised in vastly different environments.
I consistently do well on them and if a company give me one I feel it increases my chance of getting the job as I like to think I'm quite a lot better at figuring out stuff than I am at smalltalk :-)
It might help though that none if the serious IQ tests I see here include any writing: they all consist of pattern matching and other puzzles.
In fact thats a major point for a good IQ test I've been told: ideally it should give the same result for equally smart persons even if they were raised in vastly different environments.