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> things like fizzbuzz are still useful I think you're right here but, to play devil's advocate... isn't there some survivorship bias going on here? I assume
by commandlinefan 2y ago
> things like fizzbuzz are still useful
I think you're right here but, to play devil's advocate... isn't there some survivorship bias going on here? I assume you've never tested the negative hypothesis and gone ahead and hired somebody who couldn't program fizzbuzz to validate your assumption.
- Syonyk 2y agoYou're right. When interviewing for a team that writes mostly in C and assembly (assembly for various different ISAs), we're not going to hire someone who claims to know C and fumbles through some basic problems and can't reason about hardware in the slightest.
- alienthrowaway 2y ago> I assume you've never tested the negative hypothesis and gone ahead and hired somebody who couldn't program fizzbuzz to validate your assumption A former employer of mine inadvertently did! He wasn't asked to complete FizzBuzz, but I am confident he couldn't answer it as I worked on the same team as him. He was a very charismatic individual who always "needed help" from team mates on all tasks, no matter how small. He managed to collect a salary for 6 months. Some time after he was let go, the police called my employer enquiring after him, and we learned he was a conman with outstanding arrest warrants with no prior SWE experience at all. The name we all knew him by was just one of many aliases.