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Re:My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple by techhackblob on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @07:57AM (#9106479)
If software development was not a creative process then such algorithmic/IQ test interviews would be very relevant. Unfortunately for those wasting their time with such interviews it is a creative process. A recent Nobel prize in economics was given to Daniel Kahneman for his work proving such gut instinct interviews are a failure. When I first left college and was bad at software development I passed those tests, got into software firms and got my experience. Now even though I write software everyday for my clients I wouldn't pass any of those interviews. Zuckerberg is right - younger people are smarter (at passing those tests).
Re:My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple by Tloewald on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @07:59AM (#9106483)
Where was there any suggestion of algorithmic or IQ test interviewing?
Re:My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple by techhackblob on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @08:11AM (#9106527)
I was commenting on the article's posts which had expanded into interviews for such firms as Apple, Google etc. Apologies if that is not allowed.