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>> Does this count the 6 people I interviewed this year that couldn't fizzbuz? Yes. The bell curve for software developers is very wide. The 10x developers are
by phkahler 5y ago
>> Does this count the 6 people I interviewed this year that couldn't fizzbuz?
Yes. The bell curve for software developers is very wide. The 10x developers are real, they're way out there - maybe 2 standard deviations from average. The "can't fizzbuzz" crowd is large, probably only 1 standard deviation (or less) below average.
- danbmil99 5y ago1 out of 6 programmers can't solve fizzbuzz? That seems way too harsh. 2 standard deviations would mean 2.5%, or 1 in 40 -- that seems more likely, at least in my DX
- vikingerik 5y agoThis is a well-known sampling bias. The number of interview candidates who can't solve fizzbuzz is very high, because those are the people who aren't in jobs and are therefore interviewing. Interview candidates are a skewed sample of the entire population.