Comment by diob
2 days ago
It's because coding interview questions aren't so much assessing job skills as much as they are thinly veiled IQ tests.
I think if it was socially acceptable they'd just do the latter.
2 days ago
It's because coding interview questions aren't so much assessing job skills as much as they are thinly veiled IQ tests.
I think if it was socially acceptable they'd just do the latter.
Plenty of companies administer IQ tests. The reason everyone doesn't is that it doesn't work well.
Nothing works well but IQ tests predict job performance better than anything else.
Do you have a citation?
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A lot of companies have IQ like tests, in particular big consulting companies like McKinsey and so on.
McK's case interview is just as game-able as HackerRank style interviews. There are entire consulting clubs at many colleges that teach this exact interview style. It's true that it's harder (but not impossible) to use AI to help, but calling it an IQ-like test is true only as much as any other technical interview.
That being said, McK did create an entire game that they claim can't be studied for ahead of time. If the intention is to test true problem solving skills, then maybe that's roughly equivalent to a systems interview, which is hard(er) to cheat .
> That being said, McK did create an entire game that they claim can't be studied for ahead of time. If the intention is to test true problem solving skills, then maybe that's roughly equivalent to a systems interview, which is hard(er) to cheat .
Sure, right up until someone leaks it
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IQ tests are just as gamable.
And they're losing all but the worst candidates because of it, which explains a lot.