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If 100% of applicants are failing a particular question at interview, either the question is inappropriate or the recruitment process has attracted inappropriat
by austinjp 9y ago
If 100% of applicants are failing a particular question at interview, either the question is inappropriate or the recruitment process has attracted inappropriate applicants.
Either way, this is a failing of the business, not the applicants.
The recruitment process must be sensitive to the needs of the business. These are never entirely bound up in the response given to a single technical question. A good interviewer draws the best from the interviewee, and understands that technical excellence may be necessary but is never sufficient for employees.
- flukus 9y ago> Either way, this is a failing of the business, not the applicants. I've worked at places that couldn't get someone that passed FizzBuzz level tests but out of desperation hired them anyway. I've not seen people fail but turn out to be decent (or even half decent) coders in real world projects either, at best they can slap something semi-functional together. It's a failing of the business in that the aren't getting the caliber of applicants they want, but it's also a failure of the candidates when the can't program at all. It's a failure of the industry that those candidates manage to be employed at all.
- jonathankoren 9y agoAll of this is true about FizzBuzz, but at the same time, I've seen official interview question sheets that had questions with wrong answers, questions that were too ambitious for 45 minutes, and others that were just way too open ended and asked without any hints to be completely useless. Those question aren't successfully answered, because the interviewer failed.