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If this means I don't have to sit through annoying whiteboard interviews, or talk to HR bots, and all i have to do is just send them a link to my brainscan on linked in. Nice!

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Hey so we checked your scan and noticed you only have experience with .NET 4.5, we’re really looking for someone with .NET 4.7.

HR will still ask for 8 years of .Net 4.9

"Actually our engineering team is looking more for CLR experience right now."

I hear that plastic brain surgery clinics are booming.

I'll take the "volkswagon special" for one please

https://github.com/WyriHaximus/awesome-volkswagen

As dystopian as "brain scan hiring" sounds, I'd gladly accept it as normal if it meant the chance to get rid of the recruiters that most companies these days use.

We believe that you have the potential to fill this position but we are sorry to tell you that you may have brain cancer. We have already filled the position with someone else whose less potentially tumorous brain was a better fit.

If you survive, we encourage you to pay attention for future openings. Thanks!

> If you survive, we encourage you to pay attention for future openings.

We wish you luck, but our HMO has given us a healthy workplace credit for pre-identifying your condition and we are not allowed to consider you for future positions.

I dont think it sounds dystopian. There is a taboo around intelligence as if it is the most precious thing on earth. History (and AI) prove that intelligence matters in some extremely high levels, but for most knowledge jobs intelligence is far from everything.

Not dystopian at all, if you've got the right sort of scans. Otherwise welcome to the unwashed masses.

Who mentioned intelligence? This is about skills, a far more valuable and meaningful thing to measure.

And I wouldn't mind if they were fair. I strongly believe Amazon, Google, Microsoft & co. interviews are 65% luck, 35% skill.

I think "personality" deserves its own category + percentage.

Once a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric. I think that people would find ways of targeting their learning towards these brain scans, without actually getting useful experience and learning, so their usefulness would go down. Similar to standardized tests I guess, that are probably a great measure of ability until teachers start targeting them.

I think it's important to be careful with the vocabulary here (if only because of the site we're on).

There can be metrics that are targets which still remain good metrics. For example, in many machine learning competitions, the submissions optimize a known, given metric; but the test data is not known. Therefore, it is still a good metric.

I agree with the sentiment in this case, though.

I don't doubt that this would eventually be the case, people always learn to game the system eventually.

Based on the article, the scan basically measures how much you are using muscle-memory.

I am not an expert. But I'm inclined to believe that a brain scan taking while performing programming tasks would mostly measure how good of a touch-typist you are.

Nice! also scan if you are likely to cause any trouble for the company or are high medical risk therefore elevating costs for the company.

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