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Historically 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 th
by milesvp 6y ago
Historically 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.