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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: Greysard; OneWingedShark
How many times a day does a clocks hands overlap? I'd say that the hands overlap at all times at the center of the clock.
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posted on
06/22/2013 11:32:48 PM PDT
by
PuzzledInTX
(Everything will be OK in the end. If it is not OK, then it isn't the end.)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks Vince Ferrer.
They dont predict anything. They serve primarily to make the interviewer feel smart.
No, the absurdities serve primarily as a method to winnow out people who can't be herded along into "consensus".
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posted on
06/23/2013 3:54:47 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: DustyMoment
Once they begin to worship their brains and stop using them to seek objective truths, this kind of thing happens. It’s snobbery of course.
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posted on
06/23/2013 5:48:26 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Whatever promise that God has made, in Jesus it is yes. See my page.)
To: SunkenCiv
Or who weren’t “lucky” enough to be in the “correct” thought stream before they came.
I interviewed last year with another brainiac firm. I ended up not getting hired. A bummer then, as I badly needed a job, but I am now working for a humbler firm that pays more and it was clearly orchestrated by the good Lord.
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posted on
06/23/2013 5:51:53 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Whatever promise that God has made, in Jesus it is yes. See my page.)
To: Vince Ferrer
I was asked to come up with some Google questions. I did. This is what I submitted:
- Would Laz hit it? How often and why?
- How many hits would a Laz-hit hit, if a Laz-hit could hit it?
- Translate this Latin phrase: "Veni, Vidi, Hit-ci."
- Please relate the propensity of Laz to hit it as a function of SexyBack, Lackanooky Factor, and the NaughtyTeacher Series?
- You are a cute female. You have only a spool of thread, a pair of rubber gloves, a quart of apple juice, three monkeys, one Sterilite 5 gallon tub full of grape jam, a trampoline, and a midget. You see Laz approaching. What do you do?
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posted on
06/23/2013 5:59:40 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
("AP" clearly stands for American Pravda. Our news media has become completely and proudly Soviet.)
To: max americana
Is a paper airplane considered “origame”? Could make one and throw it at them.
To: Vince Ferrer
I went through a few of these tests.
On one test I remember I was given two pictures, one directly below the other. I was told to list all the differences between the two pictures. The pictures were quite complex with lots of buildings and objects to look at.
I answered after looking at the pictures closely but briefly that there were no differences. NONE, I answered.
Later the interviewer said that I was the only one who answered correctly. She said that if not stopped some interviewees would have spent days trying to find differences that didn’t exist.
To: DManA
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posted on
06/23/2013 6:59:05 AM PDT
by
Jabba the Nutt
(The Stupid Party, they've earned it.)
To: Greysard
The answer is zero. I used a digital clock.
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posted on
06/23/2013 7:01:00 AM PDT
by
Jabba the Nutt
(The Stupid Party, they've earned it.)
To: Vince Ferrer
You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and your mass is proportionally reduced so as to maintain your original density. You are then thrown into an empty glass blender. The blades will start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do? I'd use my super powers and jump out of the blender.
To: Vince Ferrer
Why Marine veterans have a hard time getting a job:
Job Interview
Personnel Manager: “What is your greatest
weakness?”
Old Marine: “Honesty.”
Personnel Manager: “I don’t think honesty is a weakness!”
Old Marine: “I don’t give a sh!t what you think.”
To: Chode
... they didn't want the real answer, they wanted the answer they wanted. Correct. Which tells you Google isn't any different from any other giant company out there, despite what they'll tell you. They are trying to find something out about your thinking process with a question like that, but it's not about how you solve problems. They want to know if you will stay safely inside the intellectual range of your boss, or will you be a loose cannon.
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posted on
06/23/2013 7:34:28 AM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
To: Cyber Liberty
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/chode6/chode2.gif)
pretty much...
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posted on
06/23/2013 7:51:54 AM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: castlegreyskull
LOL, we were all thinking about it, too. The other guys beside me wanted to walk out thinking it was BS.
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posted on
06/23/2013 2:29:47 PM PDT
by
max americana
(fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
To: jiggyboy
I believe the story explicitly says that the opposite is true...well it does seem to say that, yet they go on to talk about their new ways of judging interviewees, including "behavioral interviewing" - getting them to describe a time they solved "a difficult problem" - I would think observing people trying to solve such a problem as in a brainteaser would be a more valid and reliable method of evaluating their abilities than having them talk about it - does the interviewee try to get more information from the interviewer, does he try to find a logical method of arriving at an answer, does he become so irritated by the stress of the situation that he starts to mishandle simple steps like incorrectly spelling easy words - these are some of the behaviors that might be lost in having somebody only talk about how they solve problems and could help predict if someone might be a good employee - I think they could anyway.......
To: savedbygrace
yep... you’d be able to jump out like a grasshopper
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posted on
06/23/2013 9:51:10 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Whatever promise that God has made, in Jesus it is yes. See my page.)
To: jiggyboy
No, but it does give insight into the self-worship techies often experience. They like control. It’s why so many of them are into porn.
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posted on
06/25/2013 8:03:50 AM PDT
by
1010RD
(First, Do No Harm)
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