> Take it to the other extreme and you get folks who can’t even solve fizzbuzz. So some coding bar is good. Sounds like the epitome of a slippery slope, to be

> Take it to the other extreme and you get folks who can’t even solve fizzbuzz. So some coding bar is good. Sounds like the epitome of a slippery slope, to be honest. Some people are going to say FizzBuzz (or similar) are a good enough bar. More people are going to say 2Sum is a good enough bar. Even more people are going to say Longest Common Substring is a good enough bar. {...} And the cycle will continue, because people who will have been asked such things will (most of the time) feel like 1) they've been asked it before, so now they must ask it, 2) they can solve it and feel anyone can solve it (in theory this is fine but in practice, not everyone can solve a problem in 45 minutes that they've never seen or never fully solved before). Which reminds me of when I was going to college and I frequently had professors or TA's say X problem from the problem set is an "easy" one. Well, yeah, you're the professor or TA (for a reason) and you're the one giving it, of course you'd know how to solve it and such.