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woadwarrior01today at 7:38 AM2 repliesview on HN

I don't have a dog in the race, also I'm not based in the US, but aren't intelligence tests for hiring illegal in the US?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.


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mrkeentoday at 8:08 AM

There are dozens - dozens! - of us outside the US.

I drew the opposite conclusion from your link: (Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits employment tests that are not a 'reasonable measure of job performance'). All an employer would need to say is "We've found that people who can't dots-in-box are bad at cody"

I just dug up the link (https://www.alvalabs.io/hiring-system/assessments/logic-test) to take another look, and sure enough, there's giant text saying "A strong predictor of job performance." Consider HR's arses covered!

They have the nerve to label it is a "logic" test. I bet I'd be the only one on their staff able to write out simple natural deduction proofs.

torben-friistoday at 10:13 AM

Anecdotally, I've only seen them done in northern European companies, but every northern European company I've interviewed for had them. It seems to be a regional-ish thing.