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tptacek • today at 6:20 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

Businesses can and do ask applicants to take general cognitive tests, without excess compliance costs. IQ testing is presumptively legitimate for essentially all white collar jobs. The biggest companies that administer these tests for hiring companies have logo crawls that include a few of the best known companies in the world.

The reason more companies don't use IQ tests is that they don't work well for candidate qualification. Also, candidates hate them.