As I never heard of FizBuzz test mentioned in the article, I followed the link to Jeff Atwood's site (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000781.html http

As I never heard of FizBuzz test mentioned in the article, I followed the link to Jeff Atwood's site (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000781.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000781.html). FizzBuzz turned out to be an extremely simple problem (description in the post). Atwood's article starts with a quote of yet another article with the following lines: Like me, the author is having trouble with the fact that 199 out of 200 applicants for every programming job can't write code at all. I repeat: they can't write any code whatsoever. Surely, this is an exaggeration I'd thought... How can someone who calls themselves a programmer can fail to solve FizzBuzz even at under the pressure of being at a job interview? To my horror, I discovered that a lot of comments to Atwood's post provide an incorrect solution and only prove the point of the article. I realize that anecdotal evidence like this does not technically prove anything, however it does make me shudder inside...