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>It seems strange that the author has not met a single one that understands that concept since it is quite basic. That's exactly what everyone says when candid
by SilasX 7y ago
>It seems strange that the author has not met a single one that understands that concept since it is quite basic.
That's exactly what everyone says when candidates fail FizzBuzz.
The best explanation I know is that good candidates get hired quickly, so at any given moment, the candidate pool is dominated by people who keep failing questions like this.
- rightbyte 7y agoHe is saying that all juniors fail EE-FizzBuzz, which makes me question his interviewing skills.
- SilasX 7y agoAnd a lot of interviewers report that all juniors fail FizzBuzz.
- xvector 7y agoI just refuse to believe this. It can’t be.
- SilasX 7y agoJoin the club! Or rather, search for Fizzbuzz on HN and read the accounts and theories of similarly-baffled interviewers and posters.
- klyrs 7y agoLately, my company has been looking for folks who can, essentially, compute the sum of items in an array in JavaScript. Seniors continue to fail this. It would be great if they'd stumble over conundrums like "what if there are non-numeric entries in the array." Most often, they just stare and don't even start on the problem.
- xvector 7y agoCould you elaborate on the problem? No offense, I find it very hard to believe that no one knows how to sum the items in an array. Are you expecting some map-reduce-like parallel sum, or something else?
- klyrs 7y agoI can't really elaborate, but it's only barely more complicated than I'm representing. I'm with you. I can't believe it. Boggles my mind every time. And no we're not expecting a complicated solution.
- Chris2048 7y agoPerhaps they only interview roles below a certain salary threshhold?
- TrackerFF 7y agoThere are some variables at play. - Stress-levels of the candidate - Tone / demeanor of interviewer - Communication prior to interview I mean, sure, if you fail fizzbuzz interviews 10 times in a row, there seems to be some pattern going. But you could might as well fail it the first time, and get blackballed as incompetent.