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I will highlight the most glaring problem I find in your take. > FizzBuzz test is actually pretty great interview question [...] you should be able to do that
by Jare 9y ago
I will highlight the most glaring problem I find in your take.
> FizzBuzz test is actually pretty great interview question [...] you should be able to do that without thinking
If you are going to code for me, I'm not interested in what you can do in 1 minute, I'm interested in what you can do in 1 year. I want you to spend more than 1 minute just thinking about any problem that is remotely worth solving. And that's the underlying problem: FizzBuzz is not representative of the problems I hire you to solve, and solving it fast is not representative of the approach I want you to take for solving the problems I hire you to solve.
FizzBuzz can be a reasonable point to start a conversation about approaches and style. But that's true of almost any piece of code - I used strcmp() for a number of years.
- mamon 9y agoIf you are not able to write FizBizz without thinking that means that you've probably written no more than a handful of for loops and if statements in your whole programming "career". That's a very bad indicator for someone who applies for a programming job.
- qwerty456127 9y agoThis obviously is true (a truism) but doesn't answer any of the questions.