Re:When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re s...
by Consultant32452 on Monday January 21, 2019 @01:17PM
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IQ is the best predictor of worker performance:
https://www.businessinsider.com/why-your-iq-strongly-influen...
SAT is an IQ test:
https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/12/04/why-should-...
Re:When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re s...
by jonathankoren on Monday January 21, 2019 @03:27PM
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Allow me to provide a link from the NY Times article your shared.
The TL;DNR: Nuh-uh!
https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/12/04/why-should-...
In the future, you really shouldn't link to dueling articles in an opinion section. It makes this all too easy.
Re:When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re s...
by Consultant32452 on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @12:01AM
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One of those opinions is from a professor of psychology, the other sells test prep services for a living.
Neither IQ nor SAT scores correlate with job performance. SAT scores were requested at Google for years. Explicit aptitude tests have been used in the past, and continue to be used. They are quite legal, as long as they are used for their intend use.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/theemploymentbeat/2014/03/07/em...
https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/tools-and-samples/too...