[AndrewKemendo]

Long ago I had about a dozen employees and wanted to do a similar test for my own edification

I had them all play “this is the only level:”

https://armorgames.com/play/4309/this-is-the-only-level

It was a pretty perfect correlate with understanding the work we were doing and filling a crticial role while also looking at the big picture

Underrated test actually, and very neutral in bias

[corimaith]

The best heuristics are those the candidate will never prepare or even think about. I don't think it's difficult to find one. What happens though is when it becomes popular and everyone starts doing it, then everyone starts preparing for it and then looses most of it's predictive ability.

Filtering in a sense is an arms race between finding new novel heuristics and ambitious careerists seeking to game those very heuristics. In the past it was the college degree, then extracurriculars, then leetcode, might even be these games in the future.

[gregjor]

Known as Goodhart's Law. "When a measure [heuristic] becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."