It's painfully obvious that the author has never tried to hire developers and, in fact, has never worked on an engineering team. This line, in particular, is b

It's painfully obvious that the author has never tried to hire developers and, in fact, has never worked on an engineering team. This line, in particular, is blatantly false: > In all my years immersed in the tech industry, I have never once heard a firm talk about the idiots lurking in their own offices. Firms might not talk about it (nobody wants to say they have bad employees). But people certainly will. Nearly every developer I know has horror stories of working with incompetent colleagues who literally couldn't program. And there are even more incompetent churning out job applications—FizzBuzz exists for a reason. So it's clear to me that we need some sort of clear technical test before hiring people. But I also think FizzBuzz could be sufficient for that test. There's no need to administer an algorithms exam if all you're trying to do is find out if someone is an incompetent engineer or not (there are plenty of competent engineers, including myself, who would have trouble writing a trie on the spot).