“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”

Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by Veen on Saturday May 01, 2021 @03:27AM (#27004128)

As someone outside of the tech industry, this surprises me. I’m a writer, but when I wanted to learn to code, I did loads of coding exercises, including FizzBuzz. A couple of years later I could knock up a FizzBuzz algorithm in JavaScript or Python and probably other languages too—and I’m really not very good at programming, certainly not at a professional standard. Why is it such a Shibboleth in the tech industry?

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Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by goto11 on Saturday May 01, 2021 @06:56AM (#27005223)

The whole point of FizzBuzz is it is a trivial exercise. It could be any trivial problem. For some reason many applicants to software development jobs are simply not able to program even trivial stuff.

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Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by orthoxerox on Saturday May 01, 2021 @07:47AM (#27005488)

1. It got shared on a very popular website, the daily WTF. It's also short and silly, so it's easy to remember.

2. It's an exceedingly easy exercise meant out to weed out those who plan to learn to code on the job and hop to a new one when they are busted.

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