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Just the other day I interviewed someone with ~15 years of experience who struggled quite a bit with FizzBuzz. We ultimately decided to pass. Last week, I inte
by nilkn 10y ago
Just the other day I interviewed someone with ~15 years of experience who struggled quite a bit with FizzBuzz. We ultimately decided to pass.
Last week, I interviewed someone about to complete a master's degree from Georgia Tech who also could barely do FizzBuzz.
What should we be doing to identify people who fail FizzBuzz but we should actually be hiring? Honestly the bar for our initial phone screens is very low, and yet experienced and well-educated people still manage to fail, sometimes spectacularly. FizzBuzz is one of the most important questions we ask because of this phenomenon.
- riot504 10y agoI learned to program on the job, I have masters in economic (econometrics focused, which I was hired), but I am not sure how someone can't make there way through FizzBuzz. I am sure mine wouldn't be the best code written, particularly during an interview, but I could make it through the test. Based on my experience as an air traffic controller which requires more tests than I care to state, when we would transfer facilities we were given oral tests to gauge our experience. We would mark down the areas deficient that needed review and check areas off where knowledge was deemed satisfactory. There would be zero air traffic controllers if we dismissed candidates answering one question wrong regardless of simplicity.