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It read to me like a breakdown in communication. It wasn't made clear what the interviewer was going to get out of having the candidate solve fizzbuzz. The cand
by Jaygles 6y ago
It read to me like a breakdown in communication. It wasn't made clear what the interviewer was going to get out of having the candidate solve fizzbuzz. The candidate demonstrated that they understood the question well enough. But it seems they wanted to demonstrate the technologies they were familiar with, rather than give a simple answer.
From the interviewer's inner monologue it seems clear he wanted to prove the candidate had the most basic of skills for the job. It may not have been in the candidates mind that she was being asked such a simple question.
- runawaybottle 6y agoThe interviewer identified ego and arrogance very quickly, that’s why the interview ended in his mind early. On a sufficiently relevant problem with reasonable difficulty and depth, I think these human elements would disappear as the problem set requires too much concentration. The interviewer wanted to end it because the question he asked was ‘Are you too good for this?’, and the interviewer replied ‘Yes’. Which oddly, is an honest answer. I feel sad, if the candidate did the fizzbuzz as asked, they wouldn’t stand out on any level compared to all the other people that did fizzbuzz as asked. God knows what the other evaluation criteria is. Clearly the resume and a background check is not enough, because they still fizzbuzzed her.
- milesvp 6y agoHistorically fizzbuzz was meant as a sanity check. Can this dev code a simple for loop with some conditionals in it? It was made up because some dev realized that too many poor candidates were making it to late stages of his hiring process. It’s not meant to make candidates stand out, it’s meant to be a practical filter. My personal experience as a dev is that my weakest teamates would visibly deflate anytime a work problem came up that required a simple for loop, so it’s not a terrible bar to filter on. https://imranontech.com/2007/01/24/using-fizzbuzz-to-find-developers-who-grok-coding/ https://imranontech.com/2007/01/24/using-fizzbuzz-to-find-de...
- runawaybottle 6y agoI mean, we are saying that job experience doesn’t mean anything based on anecdotes. The power of the narrative is intense. Some of you dealt with candidates that can’t make it through a for loop, okay. This one ghost story dictated the entire direction of hiring. We are superstitious at this point.