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Ask HN: Should all devops know how to fizzbuzz
I believe fizzbuzz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizz_buzz#Programming_interviews) should be dead simple to anyone who claims proficiency in coding or "scripting." Should it be a deal-breaker if a devops candidate struggles?
By devops I'm talking about someone who does things like automation (chef or puppet), cloud administration (AWS), configuring software (db, webserver), and troubleshooting some networking issues.
- dbroberson 10y agoYes.
- angersock 10y agoWould you feel comfortable hiring somebody for automation who cannot provision a fleet of servers where every third server has a Cassandra node and every fifth server has a Redis instance?
- 3minus1 10y agothat's a essentially the same question, but also a ridiculous scenario that would never occur. what's your point
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- benologist 10y agoHe applied fizzbuzz to a work scenario... maybe it's not very important in practice?
- benologist 10y agoYour link calls fizzbuzz "a word game for children"... so probably not a useful criteria by itself.
- 3minus1 10y agoscroll down to here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizz_buzz#Programming_interviews https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizz_buzz#Programming_intervie... edit: I fixed the OP
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- benologist 10y agoLots of questions are used to probe for math and problem solving ability... but why would it be effective if it was the only question?
- BentFranklin 10y ago"Everyone" knows of it, so if you don't you are not part of "everyone". That would not look good.
- 3minus1 10y agowell all the people I've asked in real life have never heard it and struggled.