Very true. So much of the day to day job is everything except solving the very hard algorithms. But it does help to have that person around. A separate threa

Very true. So much of the day to day job is everything except solving the very hard algorithms. But it does help to have that person around. A separate thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5911017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5911017) discusses Google giving up on some of the insanity. In the original NY Times (http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-big-data-may-not-be-such-a-big-deal.html http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-huntin...) article, Question 3 covers doing away with brainteasers.