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I request everyone to read Nissim Nicholas Taleb's criticism of this IQ BS. Now, I do not buy all his arguments but I do think his broader point is pretty much

I request everyone to read Nissim Nicholas Taleb's criticism of this IQ BS. Now, I do not buy all his arguments but I do think his broader point is pretty much valid. At their core IQ tests measure how to answer exams designed by people like them. I was born dirt poor in a remote godforesaken village in India. Today I work for one of the FANG in bay area. The most depressing thing about working for this employer is howe dimwitted majority of their tech employees are beyond the core tech skills. Many of them can write complex code with ease and yet they do not understand simple sarcasm or hyperbole.

isoskeles 7y ago
You know what they say about what it means if the majority of people you meet are X, right?
guessmyname 7y ago
*** | Company | Employees ----|----------|--------------- [F] | Facebook | 39,651 (2019) [A] | Amazon | 647,500 (2018) [A] | Apple | 132,000 (2018) [N] | Netflix | 5,400 (2017) [G] | Google | 103,459 (2019) ---------------|--------------- Total | ±928,010 (2019) With all due respect, you are only one in ±1M people working in this group of companies, not very representative. I also work at a FAANG and many of my colleagues have excellent interpersonal skills, you cannot disregard that.
- throwawaysea 7y ago
  I think at least 600K of those amazon employees are not at corporate but in fulfillment.
- smm2000 7y ago
  Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook has huge number of non corporate employees - if you exclude them the FANG club is more exclusive. Nobody boasts that they work as a picker at Amazon or content reviewer at FB.
scottlocklin 7y ago
>The most depressing thing about working for this employer is howe dimwitted majority of their tech employees are... 90% of everything is crap. You should see the shambling ape-men they had in physics grad school. Actually they weren't so bad compared to FAANG ding dongs, but they were still worse than I expected. Taleb is being a weirdo, but a consistent weirdo. He doesn't believe in basic statistics, so of course he can't believe in the one fairly rigorous result we have from psychology of the last 120 years.

isoskeles 7y ago

You know what they say about what it means if the majority of people you meet are X, right?

guessmyname 7y ago

*** | Company | Employees ----|----------|--------------- [F] | Facebook | 39,651 (2019) [A] | Amazon | 647,500 (2018) [A] | Apple | 132,000 (2018) [N] | Netflix | 5,400 (2017) [G] | Google | 103,459 (2019) ---------------|--------------- Total | ±928,010 (2019) With all due respect, you are only one in ±1M people working in this group of companies, not very representative. I also work at a FAANG and many of my colleagues have excellent interpersonal skills, you cannot disregard that.

throwawaysea 7y ago
I think at least 600K of those amazon employees are not at corporate but in fulfillment.
smm2000 7y ago
Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook has huge number of non corporate employees - if you exclude them the FANG club is more exclusive. Nobody boasts that they work as a picker at Amazon or content reviewer at FB.

scottlocklin 7y ago

>The most depressing thing about working for this employer is howe dimwitted majority of their tech employees are... 90% of everything is crap. You should see the shambling ape-men they had in physics grad school. Actually they weren't so bad compared to FAANG ding dongs, but they were still worse than I expected. Taleb is being a weirdo, but a consistent weirdo. He doesn't believe in basic statistics, so of course he can't believe in the one fairly rigorous result we have from psychology of the last 120 years.