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Chinese Company Seeks US Workers With 125 IQ

Posted by samzenpus on from the look-at-the-big-brain-on-the-yankee dept.

CWmike writes "A Chinese IT outsourcing company that has started hiring new US computer science graduates to work in Shanghai requires prospective job candidates to demonstrate an IQ of 125 or above on a test it administers to sort out job applicants. In doing so, Bleum Inc. is following a hiring practice it applies to college recruits in China. But a new Chinese college graduate must score an IQ of 140 on the company's test. The lower IQ threshold for new US graduates reflects the fact that the pool of US talent available to the company is smaller than the pool of Chinese talent, Bleum said."

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  1. Re:World is changing by EmagGeek · · Score: 5, Informative

    Percentage of people with an IQ higher than 140: 0.31349%

    Percentage of people with an IQ higher than 125: 4.15182%

    (Based on Wechsler)

  2. Article missing it's mark by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think the article missed the reason they are hiring US people. "To speak English"

    They aren't hiring people from the US to do CS jobs, they are hiring them to train their mainland China employees on how to communicate in English on the specific topic (computer science) that otherwise would be completely lost on regular "GREAT ENGLISH JOBS IN CHINA TESOL" type of people who may know English but know little about computer science.

  3. Re:Ok, this is stupid by Eivind+Eklund · · Score: 5, Informative

    (Repeat of similar post above, where you made this misinterpretation too.)

    http://gawker.com/5392947/googles-broken-hiring-process

    And I quote Peter Norvig

    One of the interesting things we've found, when trying to predict how well somebody we've hired is going to perform when we evaluate them a year or two later, is one of the best indicators of success within the company was getting the worst possible score on one of your interviews. We rank people from one to four, and if you got a one on one of your interviews, that was a really good indicator of success.

    I'll quote the original source of that claim, Peter Norvig, and his refuting of that interpretation:

    What do you know? Valleywag got everything wrong. Google is hiring, not laying off. Also, our interview scores actually correlate very well with on-the-job performance. Peter Seibel asked me if there was anything counterintuitive about the process and I said that people who got one low score but were hired anyway did well on-the-job. To me, that means the interview process is doing very well, not that it is broken. It means that we don't let one bad interview blackball a candidate. We'll keep interviewing, keep hiring, and keep analyzing the results to improve the process. And I guess Valleywag will keep doing what they do...

    (emphasis mine)

    Eivind.

    --
    Doubting the existence of evolution is like doubting the existence of China: It just shows that you're uninformed.
  4. Re:IQ isn't everything by NearlyHeadless · · Score: 4, Informative

    > Basing emplyment on IQ is pointless as it doesn't actually predict "real-world" performance.

    IQ does correlate with job performance, especially for higher-complexity jobs.

    See, for example:

    http://faculty.washington.edu/mdj3/MGMT580/Readings/Week%202/Schmidt.pdf