[jaypaulynice]

Google and lots of companies continued to use brain teasers even when they realized it made no sense. Sure they wish to say this after using it for a long time. What I’ve realized sometimes there are barriers to prevent certain people and give a sense of meritocracy while justifying discrimination. It’s like when looking for an apartment, some landlords will only check some people’s backgrounds and not others. The same is true for credit card companies offering some people much lower apr than others for no reason other than prejudice. We could go on and on with examples, but that’s just a few.

In the end every company becomes average because there is only so many people they can hire. This has nothing to do with brain teasers per se.

I’ve worked in tech for over 10 years and I have to say the places I did the best work are interviews I somewhat bombed. Not a surprise!