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Re:Don’t “Hire by Keyword” by LnxPrgr3 on Monday July 25, 2016 @01:32PM (#12160159)
The problem is the number of people that fail FizzBuzz or morally equivalent interview questions. It's so bad I think companies that don't ask candidates to code could skip interviewing about general background entirely, replace it with a 15 minute trivial coding exercise, hire anyone who passes, and be noticeably better off.

Maybe this isn't universal, but I'm used to most applicants being hopelessly unqualified.

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Re:Don’t “Hire by Keyword” by greenleafjacob on Monday July 25, 2016 @04:19PM (#12161313)
Is this actually true? How many candidates have you failed for FizzBuzz specifically? Personally I've found it to be almost always passed. My previous company would ask for a simple implementation of pow() and strpos() and that had a decent filter rate.
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