Whats more surprising is the number of programmers who defend this, i.e. claiming that questions like Fizzbuzz filter out good programmers due to interview pres

Whats more surprising is the number of programmers who defend this, i.e. claiming that questions like Fizzbuzz filter out good programmers due to interview pressure or whatever. It's a simple loop, folks. Writing code and talking about it is the job, and if you can't do that you can't do the job. EDIT: Contrary to what some believe, there is no programmer who you simply hand requirements to and then they take those requirements to a dark room, produce programs that fulfill those requirements, and then reappear and hand you the programs, all in silence without looking you in the eye. Programmers need to be able to communicate about the code they're writing to collect requirements, explain problems, etc., and if social anxiety keeps them from doing that, social anxiety keeps them from doing their job.