Re:Ask HN: Is web development still a viable career choice?
by danellis on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @05:41PM
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> I never encountered a interview candidate so bad that they couldn't program fizzbuzz
Me neither, in the real world, but I have seen a couple of excruciating mock interview videos where the "candidate" was unable to complete the fizzbuzz task. I think this might be a result of people thinking that learning to be a developer involves following along with video tutorials on Udemy, and that as soon as some threshold is reached, they should be ready to look for work.
Re:Ask HN: Is web development still a viable career choice?
by koudos on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @06:50PM
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By now, I think fizzbuzz has been around enough that people know it, have heard of it, and prepare enough to solve it.
I have started using variations of fizzbuzz or additional questions that builds on it and I find myself catching people who only know the fizzbuzz portion.
Re:Ask HN: Is web development still a viable career choice?
by scarface74 on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @10:05PM
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I’ve done a version of the fizzbuzz test when zone I interviewed someone - write s function that returns true if a number is even false otherwise.
Even after I explained what an odd number was they couldn’t do it.
Most people seemed to have workable skill levels. A pretty good portion of people seemed to still be in the novelty phase of programming where they would be slightly too excited and surprised at themself, and perhaps slightly unconfident, in answering a fairly basic question correctly.