The world needs at least 600M new jobs in the next decade for young people

Re:The world needs at least 600M new jobs in the next decade... by SilasX on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @02:42PM (#10382538)

The problem with this explanation is that, for every such person, you can probably find another one that does all of that stuff correctly but still never hears back.

That's exactly what we see with the Fizzbuzz phenomenon, with every interviewer complaining that no applicant can do it, but everyone tripping over each other (including hobbyists and beginners) to say how easy it is, so "where's my job?"

I saw it too with professors and employers who blog, complaining that applicants and students can barely put together a sentence.

Where meets the twain?

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Re:The world needs at least 600M new jobs in the next decade... by VLM on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @03:45PM (#10382982)

"every interviewer complaining that no applicant can do it"

I've noticed a correlation between that and insanely low pay or horrific working conditions, or a crazy disconnect between demands and the requirements.

"I don't understand why none of the applicants can explain the details of why one BGP route is preferred over the other" -- says the guy trying to hire a CCIE for $50K at a dying utility company.

"Well, sure we pivot every month and require 80 hour super high pressure work weeks and the runway ends in six months but aren't all companies, everywhere, on a perpetual death march?" -- says the guy who doesn't get any fizzbuzz-able applicants

"I can't find any applicants with PHD level programming skills and encyclopedic knowledge of algorithms who have written a widely used LISP and/or hold a Fields math medal and/or a Nobel" -- says the guy complaining about getting no serious applicants when trying to hire for an entry level CRUD shoveler, upon being told everyone's unemployed so he should aim high.

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Re:The world needs at least 600M new jobs in the next decade... by ryandrake on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @05:49PM (#10383720)

Or, in other words, companies tend to get the applicant pool that their job descriptions/work conditions deserve.

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Re:The world needs at least 600M new jobs in the next decade... by hackerboos on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @09:59AM (#10386615)

I've never had a interview which was only FizzBuzz. The problems given are usually much more difficult than that.

But I've also done interviews with no coding at all.

Point being, nobody is going to hire on FizzBuzz alone, in fact I would hatch a guess that most companies don't use it as a problem anymore given its prevalence.

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