[fintech_eng]

Indeed, there are even SaaS companies that will set it all up for you! I recently went through rounds that had a pretty blatant basic IQ test. I pushed back many times but the recruiter insisted it was required. I eventually complied, but it felt weird. I worry now my IQ score is in some database forever attached to recruiter's candidate profiling systems.

[tptacek]

I don't think I'd do it and I know I'd think much less of any company that used general cognitive testing as part of their candidate qualification process (I'd be working with a team of coworkers that were basically selected by astrology), but it is lawful to run a hiring process for a knowledge work job that way.

It's still not sinking in, 75 years after W. Edwards Deming, that the reliable way to hire people is simply to audition them doing the actual work their role involves.