Comments on: How Netflix Reinvented HR

By: Lucklucky

Lucklucky — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 01:46:38 +0000

I know many intelligent people that don’t want to be leaders. Some I can say, they don’t have much ambition.

There are also others that are very inteligent in their field but out of it are like a normal person or worse.

When specialization is extreme the IQ loses significance unless we are talking about the specific field that person developed.

There are also many ways for a person to think of employment. Some persons just want safe income, but their intelligence is elsewhere.

By: Johnny Abacus

Johnny Abacus — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 00:46:21 +0000

IQ doesn't tell the whole story, but as a metric, it's pretty darn good. It is one of the top predictors, substantially outperforming such standbys as unstructured interviews, reference checks, and years of education.

By: Lucklucky

Lucklucky — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 21:44:47 +0000

Here we go again. IQs don’t tell whole story. Far from it.

By: Dan Kurt

Dan Kurt — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 17:47:58 +0000

There is a limited number of "A" players in mental fields, knowledge workers, due to the tyranny of the IQ curve. How does an employer find them? Since it is illegal to do IQ testing to find employees, testing directly for IQ cannot work. The employer must find a surrogate method such as asking to see, for example, the prospective employee's GREs. Voilà, the IQ is found. Now find a method to determine the prospective employee's work ethic and the problem is solved on who to hire.

By: Spandrell

Spandrell — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 13:12:03 +0000

All these American startups are going to stop reinventing the wheel some day. Good workers are better than bad workers! No shit.

What do we do with everyone else though? There’s a limited supply of A workers, and those A workers needed work experience to become A too.