Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t...
by phendrenad2 on Saturday May 01, 2021 @06:47AM
(#27005175)
That's another good point, fizzbuzz really tests two things, and people tend to only think of one of them. The first one everyone thinks of is "does the person know how to write a simple if/else expression". But the other thing people need to know is how to do math, and use programming syntax, they haven't thought of in potentially a very long time.
It would be like testing if someone knows about a "crankshaft" in a job where they'll be exclusively working on Teslas.
Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t...
by oneeyedpigeon on Saturday May 01, 2021 @09:29AM
(#27006141)
I think it very much depends on the specific programming job, but I can't think of many roles I've come across where, if I were in charge of programming hires, I'd be happy with somebody who wasn't even aware of the concept of modulo. And I consider myself FAR from a math nerd.
Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t...
by bendbro on Saturday May 01, 2021 @04:10PM
(#27009373)
> It would be like testing if someone knows about a "crankshaft" in a job where they'll be exclusively working on Teslas
Yeah completely agree. Not all things people call "programming" are the same. Only jobs that require someone to think in this way should have tests filtering for it
Implementing fizzbuzz successfully requires someone to have the most basic understanding of cause and effect, the ability to reason from that understanding, and the ability to reason abstractly. Nearly all forms of programming require that. So yes, fizzbuzz selects people in the "in group"- the in group of people who are actually potential programmers.