teaser

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How many times did you have to solve a brain teaser at work?

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a worker who teases wool

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noun

a worker who teases wool

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someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)

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an advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers' interest

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for teaser.

noun

a worker who teases wool

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someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)

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an advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers' interest

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a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution; "he loved to solve chessmate puzzles"; "that's a real puzzler"

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an attention-getting opening presented at the start of a television show

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a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings

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a device for teasing wool; "a teaser is used to disentangle the fibers"

Example sentences

How many times did you have to solve a brain teaser at work?

It's a teaser / marketing site for my current project.

Just wait until the lockup expires - that's when the real crash will begin - this is just a teaser.

I'd give them more context and clues than typically are given in these brainteaser situations.

It isn't testing whether the candidate can solve problems, its testing whether the candidate is good at brain teasers.

Note that a brain-teaser-type test used in a hiring procedure could be challenged as illegal if it can be shown to have disparate impact on some job applicants.

There are a couple of teaser bullet-points-in-boxes that gives a high-level view, but I think the home page would really benefit from an in-your-face description conveying the clear benefits.

A company defending a brain-teaser test for hiring would have to defend it by showing it is supported by a validation study demonstrating that the test is related to successful performance on the job.

There are 2 points we also have to consider when specifically talking about the custom development market, one is that advertising development houses are not helping the issue by putting out teaser ads like Get your iPhone app idea built for $5000.

For example, people who made $50k/yr and bought a $1M house would delude themselves into buying the house by saying "Well, I can take the teaser rate for 2 years, and by then the price should go up by $100k, and then I can sell, and use that money for a downpayment on a house I can afford.

Note that a brain-teaser-type test used in a hiring process might be illegal if it can be shown to have disparate impact on some job applicants and is not supported by a validation study demonstrating that the test is related to successful performance on the job.

Dilution itself just becomes a touch-point, because all that other crap they look back on and realize they "should have expected".Most startup engineers think the equity is a signing bonus, almost like a gift-- say, a teaser-- and that they're going to get an order of magnitude more as long as they perform.