If the Shoe Fits: a Lesson Learned
by Miki SaxonA Friday series exploring Startups and the people who make them go. Read all If the Shoe Fits posts here.
Brainteaser interview questions. Google was famous for them.
So they must be a good idea because Google only does smart stuff — right?
Wrong.
According to Laszlo Bock, Google’s SVP of People Operations, they are worthless in terms of predicting how someone will do on the job.
In fact, many of them were banned more than a year ago.
The lesson here is that following the leader — even a leader like Google — isn’t necessarily the smart way to go.
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