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Hopefully the recent news articles about Google's data-driven analysis of these techniques will start moving things in the right direction... there is ZERO predictive value to many of these questions, and they bring with them a tremendous - and unaccounted for - cost around interviewing & rejecting qualified people.

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That's not quite what the analysis of their hiring practices says. All it says is that among those that pass, it does not predict their future success with the company. It may however be a good predictor of negative success--those that don't pass would not have gone on to do well at Google. Of course their data cannot determine that.

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