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Google admits those infamous brainteasers were completely useless for hiring
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| June 20, 2013
| Adam Pasick
Posted on 06/22/2013 8:31:47 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Chode
That is a good one. I’ve been waiting about a week for an opportunity to drop it.
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posted on
06/22/2013 9:13:07 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: Chode
manhole cover are round because.... unlike a square, they cannot be dropped through their own hole!!!There is another...
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posted on
06/22/2013 9:17:05 PM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: Intolerant in NJ
I believe the story explicitly says that the opposite is true.
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posted on
06/22/2013 9:17:50 PM PDT
by
jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: Kevmo
I had a question like that one time in an interview. Totally inconsistent with the rest of the interview.
I just looked at the guy like he was an idiot. He probably thought I was one as well.
Didn’t get the job and was not really disappointed.
To: OneWingedShark
How many times a day does a clocks hands overlap?
23 or 24, basically once an hour, it depends on if you're counting 000-2359:59, or 0000-2400. This is not exactly true. The question doesn't say how many hours it takes your planet to rotate around its axis once. Also it doesn't define the length of the day, as opposed to the length of the night. Those are important details :-)
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posted on
06/22/2013 9:23:14 PM PDT
by
Greysard
To: OneWingedShark
yup...
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posted on
06/22/2013 9:26:06 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Delta Dawn
I’ve had several of these questions. They’re bowlsheet. The only way to approach them is to view it as a way to appease HR. HR doesn’t know crap about debugging or engineering. They like to pretend they do, but they really don’t, because they can’t.
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posted on
06/22/2013 9:27:20 PM PDT
by
Kevmo
("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
To: Vince Ferrer
Now lets get rid.of those stupid personality test feel good companies like to use.
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posted on
06/22/2013 9:34:51 PM PDT
by
autumnraine
(America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
To: Intolerant in NJ
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posted on
06/22/2013 9:35:46 PM PDT
by
autumnraine
(America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
To: Cyber Liberty
Riddle me this future employees.
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posted on
06/22/2013 9:37:28 PM PDT
by
autumnraine
(America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
To: Delta Dawn
The first big company I had an interview with was for Procter & Gamble.
One of the first “psych” tests was placing a piece of paper in front of the table and all applicants must make an origami figurine, I kid you not.
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posted on
06/22/2013 9:49:26 PM PDT
by
max americana
(fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
To: Vince Ferrer
It was, I heard, ostensibly to find out how the person might approach getting the answer to such a random question, and little interested in an actual answer.
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posted on
06/22/2013 10:03:33 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Whatever promise that God has made, in Jesus it is yes. See my page.)
To: Cyber Liberty
Which overlooks the matter of why don’t the covers overlap the manholes... someone who thought outside the box would, you’d think, be prized by such a brainy firm.
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posted on
06/22/2013 10:05:07 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Whatever promise that God has made, in Jesus it is yes. See my page.)
To: Kevmo
They’ve bought a lot of hooey from modernist experts.
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posted on
06/22/2013 10:06:23 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Whatever promise that God has made, in Jesus it is yes. See my page.)
To: Vince Ferrer
We found that brainteasers are a complete waste of time, Laszlo Bock, senior vice president of people operations at Google, told the New York Times. They dont predict anything. They serve primarily to make the interviewer feel smart.A 4th grader could have told them that. I wonder how much Google paid to have some "research" company tell them that?
IDIOTS!! This is just another reason I refuse to use Google for anything.
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posted on
06/22/2013 10:28:31 PM PDT
by
DustyMoment
(Congress - another name for anti-American criminals!!)
To: Greysard
The question doesn't say how many hours it takes your planet to rotate around its axis once. Also it doesn't define the length of the day, as opposed to the length of the night. Those are important details :-)It also doesn't take into consideration the second hand. Since the question is unclear as to which hands are included, there cannot be a correct answer.
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posted on
06/22/2013 10:34:40 PM PDT
by
DustyMoment
(Congress - another name for anti-American criminals!!)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Which overlooks the matter of why dont the covers overlap the manholes... someone who thought outside the box would, youd think, be prized by such a brainy firm.Which is exactly the opposite of what most high-tech firms prize. Individualists who detour from the "groupthink" tend to be among the first out the door.
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posted on
06/22/2013 10:37:35 PM PDT
by
DustyMoment
(Congress - another name for anti-American criminals!!)
To: Vince Ferrer
(PS: The answer is 500,000). Not if you ride the short bus.
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posted on
06/22/2013 10:49:28 PM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: DManA
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posted on
06/22/2013 10:53:48 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: OneWingedShark
Thanks. Learned something new. /no sarc
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posted on
06/22/2013 11:24:29 PM PDT
by
piytar
(The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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