Bungie Needs "High IQ" Help With PS3

[Baldr]

I seen a lot of applications with a multiple choice for how much common sense you have. Maybe it is like that. Then again, the higher the IQ, usually a person usually suffers from some sort of social behavior problem.

 

[theSovietConnection]

Doesn't everyone put their IQ on their resume anyway?

I do.

Should I stop?

It's not so much what you put on your resume, but how you put it. For example, I've worked a good 4 years on home at the farm pulling weeds out of tomato fields, as well as harvesting them. Now, pulling weeds and harvesting tomatoes doesn't exactly sound good to most, if not all employers. If I reword them to "Organic crop maintenance technician" and "Agricultural quality control", however, not only does it look better, I haven't lied about anything. So if you're going to put your IQ down, it would be better to state it as something like "above average intelligence", so that it doesn't seem like you're trying to be arrogant.

 

[Aurgelmir]

Bungie Needs "High IQ" Help With PS3

Want to work at Bungie? Hope you've got a high IQ.

Now that Bungie is working on a multi-platform project with Activision [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/100329-Bungie-Signs-Deal-With-Activision], the studio needs employees that understand a console other than the Xbox 360. One of Bungie's new job listings reflects this, but just having PlayStation 3 skills isn't enough.

Bungie is looking for a software development engineer with experience in PS3 software testing, debugging, and troubleshooting. Being able to program in C# is a must, as is experience with SQL queries. You've got to be able to communicate, work with a team, and have an appetite for high quality. Oh, you better have a high IQ too.

The studio lists "High IQ" right alongside all of the other requirements for the job, which seems a little odd. Does this mean Bungie requires the submission of an IQ test along with a resume? It'd be rough if a candidate meets all requirements, but he/she somehow has an abhorrently low IQ.

I had always thought that the majority of IQ tests were a big load of baloney, but apparently they're important to Bungie. I guess putting together Halo on steroids [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/100339-Sony-Exec-Bungie-Deal-Gives-PS3-Fans-Halo-on-Steroids] requires a high score on standardized aptitude tests. In reality, this is probably just Bungie's way of saying "don't be a dunderhead," but a much nicer way of putting it. If you're a PlayStation 3 software developer, I don't really see how you can be a dunderhead anyway.

Source: Game Informer [http://www.bungie.net/Inside/aboutus.aspx#27683]

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What is considered a high IQ? 105? 110?

And well Mensa don't really like using the word I>Q, and instead talk about what precentage of the population you belong to, as in:

Top 2% most intelligent people in the world.

PS: No I am not one of those
EDIT: But I did solve a 4x4x4 rubiks cube on my own.

 

[Fiskmasen]

Aside from Halo 1 i have yet to play and like a game from Bungie. Just my opinion.

And that comment has zero input on the topic at hand. Good job!

OT:
I don't really see how you'd even have to put High IQ there in the first place. They're looking for a Software Engineer? Those guys generally have enough IQ, seeing as how they actually made it through their education.

 

[LawlessSquirrel]

Wonder what 'high' means. Probably just a way to keep out the less serious job seekers if I had to guess; would cut back on applications. IQs really don't mean much, I can't see it being a very high consideration.

I supposedly have an IQ of 140, so if I say it means nothing I probably know what I'm talking about.

(Whoo, paradox!)

 

[omegatheta]

well bungie DOES have a history of...being kinda arrogant about things when they say them... even when they don't mean themt o be arrogant

 

[unoleian]

A high....intelligence quotient? Internet Qualification? Introspective Quandary? Ideal Qualities? Imaginative Questioning?

 

[Chamale]

Wait, what?

Just about the only thing an IQ test measures is how good you are at IQ tests. I guess they give a very VERY general indication of your intelligence, but that's it.

I've gotten scores ranging from 87 and 160 on three different IQ tests, applied by trained psychologists. Internet IQ tests have been even less accurate.

IQ tests are broken, though good ones can provide useful data.

 

[CG]

Given the non-standard nature of IQ testing, there's no way they would accept a result that you acquired elsewhere, especially not an internet-based test like the ones on high-IQ sites. More likely is that they would administer a test themselves with their own specialist psychologist to determine whether you have the type of intelligence/skills necessary to perform the duties they need.

Oh wait, isn't that exactly the same as a job interview?

 

[Bigsmith]

hang on... bungie is working with activision, whom quite a while ago formed a merger with BLizzard. So does that mean that Bungie is working for Activision blizzard?

OT: porting to the Ps3? do i see them some how continuing the Halo series but on the ps3 just for lolz XD.

 

[Asuka Soryu]

Would be interesting to see someone skilled with game design who's stupid.

 

[rockyoumonkeys]

Oh look, Bungie actually has to work again, instead of just releasing the same game over and over.