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points by tptacek 1 day ago | 0 comments
Businesses can and do ask applicants to take general cognitive tests, without excess compliance costs. IQ testing is presumptively legitimate for essentially all white collar jobs. The biggest companies that administer these tests for hiring companies have logo crawls that include a few of the best known companies in the world.

The reason more companies don't use IQ tests is that they don't work well for candidate qualification. Also, candidates hate them.

[–] lotsofpulp 1 day ago
Thanks, I must have been misinformed. I was told that 20 years ago when a lot of NYC HFT firms used to (still do?) ask for SAT scores.
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