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Re:Dark Motives and Elective Use of Brainteaser Interview Qu... by Aeolun on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @12:26AM (#17965548)
Not a candidate, someone we had already hired through an agency. Two someone’s actually. Never again.

They were great people, but couldn’t distinguish a string from an int.

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Re:Dark Motives and Elective Use of Brainteaser Interview Qu... by FundThrowaway on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @12:49AM (#17965632)
That's pretty crazy, how do these people exist and get jobs? What kind of development were they supposed to be doing?
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Re:Dark Motives and Elective Use of Brainteaser Interview Qu... by kajmagnusmobile on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @03:44AM (#17966310)
And what's the reason they were asked to do the fizzbugz test?
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Re:Dark Motives and Elective Use of Brainteaser Interview Qu... by Aeolun on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @11:02AM (#17969469)
They weren’t asked until we had some internal hackathon where we were trying to implement tested fizz buzz in new languages we were working with.
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Re:Dark Motives and Elective Use of Brainteaser Interview Qu... by Aeolun on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @11:03AM (#17969473)
Full stack Webdevelopment. Had 2 years of experience.
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