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Re:U.S. regulators accuse Palantir of bias against Asians by morgante on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @03:42AM (#12588005)
> basic knowledge of fizbuzz, dfs, bfs, quicksort, and similar things of course is needed

FizzBuzz is not some arcane algorithm. You don't need to study it.

It's literally writing a loop, testing equality, and printing some output. I don't know how you could program professionally and not be able to solve FizzBuzz.

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Re:U.S. regulators accuse Palantir of bias against Asians by vidarh on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @02:55PM (#12592043)
People should be able to solve FizzBuzz provided it is explained properly and fully.

This is the same for a lot of the basic algorithms we learnt and forgot.

This, to me is the big caveat. Just as there are a lot of people who are horrible at solving stuff they should easily be able to, I've conversely seen so many horrible interviewers that under-specify the problems they ask about because they assume people should understand algorithms that would make it easier to understand, or just assume people will infer things most people wouldn't.

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