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Re:What It Takes to Hire 10 Employees in San Francisco by eldenbishop on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @07:37PM (#20701129)
Kind of funny this came up. I used fizz-buzz in all my interviews for about two years (at first as a joke). Not a single new CS grad ever solved it in about a dozen interviews. The best I got was pseudo code like "if (i divisible by 5) { ... } else if (etc... "

Turns out modulo is not a well known operation.

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Re:What It Takes to Hire 10 Employees in San Francisco by bradleyjg on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @07:58PM (#20701258)
Wow. I was using fizzbuzz as stand-in for basic ability to code problems and I guess I don't really care if someone doesn't happen to know modulo, but I am surprised. I certainly would expect modulo to be more well known that left and right shift for example.
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