[Etheryte]

I thought I'd more or less seen most MBA nonsense around these days, but oh boy this is something else entirely. In order to assess a candidate, you're gonna think in your head "what do I think this person would do if the coffee machine broke down". You base your hiring decision for a person you just met and know more or less nothing about on what you made up in your head in a complete shower thought scenario.

[blitzar]

I was worried at first that they used a broken coffee machine and had candidates make their own cup of coffee, and observed "how they handled the situation". If and only if they broke out a set of repair tools did they get invited back for a second round.

The imginary method outlined in the article might actually be worse.

They really could save a lot of time and effort by laying all the CVs out on the table and getting a Dowsing stick and using it to find the best candidate.