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Don't worry, we will still have brains to spare after someone does an A/B test on poking.

Spend another year or so A/B testing the gradients of your upgrade button.

Simple coding tests largely filter these people out so if you're offended by such simple tests, just do it and move on.

Some companies do the validation study, and use IQ-like tests in hiring.

And I found it very easy to pick up. I can't wait until I start doing all my work in Go, that will be a true test of its productivity efficiency.

But last batch was the first time we did parallel interview tracks at all, and we needed to test whether it worked for 2 before we went to 3.

I volunteered to take a police polygraph test, hired a lawyer and initiated a libel suit.

Another is a work-sample test, where the applicant does an actual task or group of tasks like what the applicant will do on the job if hired.

" are stupid.- testing "back of the envelope" estimation however can be useful.

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.

Usually this is things like comments/documentation, tests, improving the structure or reusability.

And why should this be relevant to board service?Politics, religion, and social worldviews divide people and have no place as limiting tests in a business environment.

We can form hypotheses, test those hypotheses rigorously, and perhaps make some lineages of harmful microorganisms as extinct in the wild as the smallpox virus and rinderpest virus now are.

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 many kinds of hiring criteria, such as in-person interviews, telephone interviews, resume reviews for job experience, checks for academic credentials, personality tests, and so on.

I'm all for people having the freedom to eat whatever they want and I really like the quantified self aspect of seeing how diet affects how they feel and metrics of health, but I have to say the author grossly does not understand the medical tests he had done and misinterprets the data.

It should be used in conjunction with a multi-faceted interviewing approach that involves testing fundamentals, the ability to construct a relatively simple algorithm, the issues of working on a team and on a production code base and systems design.- the problem with simply talking about "real world" code, as the author suggests, is you're no longer finding a good engineer, you're finding someone you like, someone who thinks like you.