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> A few years ago Google -- famous for their tech interviews -- revealed that they had found no correlation between the interview tests and puzzles and job perf

• gregjor 12y ago
  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-big-data-may-not-be-such-a-big-deal.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-b... "On the hiring side, we found that brainteasers are a complete waste of time. How many golf balls can you fit into an airplane? How many gas stations in Manhattan? A complete waste of time. They don’t predict anything. They serve primarily to make the interviewer feel smart." From an interview with Laszlo Bock, senior vice president of people operations at Google.
• gregjor 12y ago
  See also my own satirical take on tech interviews: http://typicalprogrammer.com/thirteen-patterns-of-programmer-interviews/ http://typicalprogrammer.com/thirteen-patterns-of-programmer...