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1. I'm nearly 100% certain they're not hiring for the position of "Co-founder". 2. I'm nearly 100% certain they couldn't derive, in real-time and in-scope of t
by im_down_w_otp 10y ago
1. I'm nearly 100% certain they're not hiring for the position of "Co-founder".
2. I'm nearly 100% certain they couldn't derive, in real-time and in-scope of the interview, the solution to a PhD thesis problem they had never heard of before, nor previously been given the answer to simply to recall it later.
3. I'm nearly 100% sure that if they can do #2, then they should be interviewing for #1 someplace else, not trying to become employee # X-thousandth-and-one in a mature enterprise, or that they'd never be asked these questions to begin with because they'd be interviewing for a job that was directly related to and based on their own pre-existing published academic works.
I'll start to believe that these companies are pioneering best-practices around hiring when their frontline recruiters are psychiatrists and psychologists who specialize in proficiency assessment and personality profiling.