[geoelectric]

I've heard a school of thought that being good at those games is actually a yellow flag because you get conditioned to code fast, not well.

That said, I love those games, so screw that. I just don't confuse them for being a gauge of someone's professional value. They probably correlate some with intelligence, but that's only one piece of the puzzle and probably not the most important piece for the grand majority of hires. Communication, work ethic, and creativity are probably more what I'd look for there.

My guess is a team made up mostly of "just above average" people would probably coordinate and communicate better than a team of "genius programmers" anyway. So there's a bar, but from there it's not as simple as smarter is better.