Court rules that barring high IQs for cops is not unconstitutional (2000)

Re:Court rules that barring high IQs for cops is not unconst... by SpicyLemonZest on Sunday May 31, 2020 @01:19PM (#23370950)

I don't think anyone is trying to cover that up. Many teams are responsible for boring and low-impact work, so they need to hire people who are easy to manage or the work won't get done.

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Re:Court rules that barring high IQs for cops is not unconst... by ViViDboarder on Sunday May 31, 2020 @03:23PM (#23371916)

Ruling out skilled folks for their skills Kate a poor way of being for those teams. Motivation is something entirely different than aptitude.

I hire engineers to work on internal tools. It’s far from the most “glamorous” roles in the SWE world and a lot of great engineers would not want to be working with Salesforce or Oracle. However, it’s very important and strategic to our business.

I don’t reduce the qualifications when hiring though. I actually add another. They must be motivated by this type of work. I find people who care about efficiency of teams and are motivated by having a revenue impact more than being able to point to a widget on the main site and say “I did this”.

I’ve been quite successful at it for the last 7 or so years with slightly lower turnover than the rest of the org or industry averages.

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Re:Court rules that barring high IQs for cops is not unconst... by throwaway_pdp09 on Sunday May 31, 2020 @01:34PM (#23371058)

What is that work? Why can't it be automated?

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Re:Court rules that barring high IQs for cops is not unconst... by joejerryronnie on Sunday May 31, 2020 @03:39PM (#23372046)

Probably because these are not rote tasks being performed but rather new dev projects driven by new demands, priorities, and business requirements. You can’t automate that type of work.

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Re:Court rules that barring high IQs for cops is not unconst... by anewdirection on Sunday May 31, 2020 @02:21PM (#23371441)

Some things need a human touch. Interacting with other humans is one of those things. See any automated customer service bot ever to see how absolutely terrible an idea that would be.

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Re:Court rules that barring high IQs for cops is not unconst... by bargle0 on Sunday May 31, 2020 @02:05PM (#23371324)

Probably because it’s still cheaper to throw people at it.

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Re:Court rules that barring high IQs for cops is not unconst... by adrianN on Sunday May 31, 2020 @02:59PM (#23371736)

Good luck automating fixing bugs and implementing weird customer requests in an old legacy application.

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