Once upon a time, successful companies used IQ tests to focus their hiring on qualified candidates. This was deemed racist and became illegal (unless you're the government/military). At that time, adaptive employers quickly realized that having a college degree was a good way to indirectly measure intelligence.
It took a couple decades but people started catching on that lots of the successful people have college degrees. Nowadays, it's only fair that everyone is entitled to college degrees--which puts their value as proxies for intelligence in serious decline.
One recent trend for employers has been to take a problem that requires intelligence to solve but present it in moderately technical language rather than a more generalized / culturally-agnostic framework. E.g., FizzBuzz vs. Raven's Progressive Matrices:
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Once upon a time, successful companies used IQ tests to focus their hiring on qualified candidates. This was deemed racist and became illegal (unless you're the government/military). At that time, adaptive employers quickly realized that having a college degree was a good way to indirectly measure intelligence.
It took a couple decades but people started catching on that lots of the successful people have college degrees. Nowadays, it's only fair that everyone is entitled to college degrees--which puts their value as proxies for intelligence in serious decline.
One recent trend for employers has been to take a problem that requires intelligence to solve but present it in moderately technical language rather than a more generalized / culturally-agnostic framework. E.g., FizzBuzz vs. Raven's Progressive Matrices:
https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/
https://www.iqmindware.com/iq-mindware/how-to-do-a-raven-matrices-test/