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It honestly shows that alot of people havn't done interviews with the comments. You're 100% right with the 1:100 people knowing how a computer works. I legit ha

by maldev 4y ago

It honestly shows that alot of people havn't done interviews with the comments. You're 100% right with the 1:100 people knowing how a computer works. I legit have to ask FizzBuzz and I would like 4 out of 5 people can't do it. Like maybe we'll see the industry require the bare minimum of actually knowing how to write a basic program for a 6 figures job, but we arn't gonna go anywhere as a profession.

nibbleshifter 4y ago
I honestly can't remember what a fizzbuzz is unless pressed. Same with many other stupid interview questions. Its so far from anything useful I've done. By now surely there's a Python module for it anyway!
- maldev 4y ago
  Bro, it's literally printing out "fizz" if a number is divisible by 3, and "buzz" if it's divisible by 5, on a for loop from 1 to 100. You really need a python module for a 3 line for loop??
ajmurmann 4y ago
I've had an interview were I couldn't detect a palindrome because I was out of my mind nervous and couldn't think at all. Meanwhile I've been team lead, engineering director and published research papers on machine learning. But interviewing is such a different situation with its own challenges. I've conducted interviews where candidates were absolutely amazing and then got hung up on a tiny mistake and then got clearly way too nervous and performed much worse.
simplotek 4y ago
> wing how a computer works. I legit have to ask FizzBuzz What leads you to believe that fizzbuzz is a relevant litmus test for competent software developers?
- BurningFrog 4y ago
  It's not for that. It weeds out people who can't write code at all. Yes, tons of them do apply for dev jobs.
  - harvey9 4y ago
    Weeds out people who didn't memorize an answer to a well known test. But it's more efficient to discuss a real world code problem as this allows you to weed out people who can't solve problems or code either.
    - throwaway675309 4y ago
      For Christ sake. There was never any need to memorize fizz buzz, that's the whole point of the damn question. It tests an applicants basic math and logic capabilities (in this case modulo and for loops).
      - simplotek 4y ago
        > For Christ sake. There was never any need to memorize fizz buzz, Wrong. Fizzbuzz is the epitome of a hiring test that is gamed by rote learning and adds absolutely nothing in terms of decisive info on wether s candidate is competent or not. Your argument is like arguing in favour of using hello word in as many languages as possible and then claim that there is no need to memorize them because that's the point of the question.
        ajmurmann 4y ago
        I have big issues with impractical interview questions that favor interview prep over actually practical skills. That said, anyone who can program should be able to implement fizz buzz in 10-15 minutes given a description of the problem even if they had never heard of it.
        inconceivable 4y ago

by maldev 4y ago

nibbleshifter 4y ago

I honestly can't remember what a fizzbuzz is unless pressed. Same with many other stupid interview questions. Its so far from anything useful I've done. By now surely there's a Python module for it anyway!

maldev 4y ago
Bro, it's literally printing out "fizz" if a number is divisible by 3, and "buzz" if it's divisible by 5, on a for loop from 1 to 100. You really need a python module for a 3 line for loop??

ajmurmann 4y ago

I've had an interview were I couldn't detect a palindrome because I was out of my mind nervous and couldn't think at all. Meanwhile I've been team lead, engineering director and published research papers on machine learning. But interviewing is such a different situation with its own challenges. I've conducted interviews where candidates were absolutely amazing and then got hung up on a tiny mistake and then got clearly way too nervous and performed much worse.

simplotek 4y ago

> wing how a computer works. I legit have to ask FizzBuzz What leads you to believe that fizzbuzz is a relevant litmus test for competent software developers?

BurningFrog 4y ago
It's not for that. It weeds out people who can't write code at all. Yes, tons of them do apply for dev jobs.
- harvey9 4y ago
  Weeds out people who didn't memorize an answer to a well known test. But it's more efficient to discuss a real world code problem as this allows you to weed out people who can't solve problems or code either.
  - throwaway675309 4y ago
    For Christ sake. There was never any need to memorize fizz buzz, that's the whole point of the damn question. It tests an applicants basic math and logic capabilities (in this case modulo and for loops).
    - simplotek 4y ago
      > For Christ sake. There was never any need to memorize fizz buzz, Wrong. Fizzbuzz is the epitome of a hiring test that is gamed by rote learning and adds absolutely nothing in terms of decisive info on wether s candidate is competent or not. Your argument is like arguing in favour of using hello word in as many languages as possible and then claim that there is no need to memorize them because that's the point of the question.
      - ajmurmann 4y ago
        I have big issues with impractical interview questions that favor interview prep over actually practical skills. That said, anyone who can program should be able to implement fizz buzz in 10-15 minutes given a description of the problem even if they had never heard of it.
        inconceivable 4y ago