It's because coding interview questions aren't so much assessing job skills as much as they are thinly veiled IQ tests.
I think if it was socially acceptable they'd just do the latter.
I think if it was socially acceptable they'd just do the latter.
The most interesting thing in that paper is that years of experience performed so poorly. It’s in the lowest cohort. Worse than “interests” or more general “biographical data”.
Most hiring managers believe experience matters in hiring as well, perhaps that’s the belief that keeps them from using iq tests.
For what it’s worth, IQ tests are biased (see duyme’ adoptive studies for a drastic economic impact). That largely is orthogonal to if they are predictive in the ways your citation outlines.
That being said, McK did create an entire game that they claim can't be studied for ahead of time. If the intention is to test true problem solving skills, then maybe that's roughly equivalent to a systems interview, which is hard(er) to cheat .
Sure, right up until someone leaks it