And you think if I solve fizzbuzz in 15 minutes on a sheet of paper, you can be sure I can handle those things? That's the part I don't get. It's so arbitrary

And you think if I solve fizzbuzz in 15 minutes on a sheet of paper, you can be sure I can handle those things? That's the part I don't get. It's so arbitrary and artificial. All you can be sure of is that I can solve fizzbuzz in 15 minutes. > Programming profession is hard and full of rough edges, unfortunately. I agree completely, but I think paper programming exercises produce false positives AND false negatives.