Ask HN: What % of your job interviewees pass FizzBuzz type questions?

Re:Ask HN: What % of your job interviewees pass FizzBuzz typ... by unshift on Friday September 16, 2011 @12:23PM (#3005083)

that question is a bit of a turn-off to me. obviously "benchmark it, see what's slowest, and make it faster" is a correct answer, and so is a 40 page essay about browser rendering, minification, full page caching, fragment caching, AJAX, etc. have you tried anything more specific?

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Re:Ask HN: What % of your job interviewees pass FizzBuzz typ... by ericb on Friday September 16, 2011 @12:32PM (#3005118)

If you have examples of more specific questions, I'm glad to hear them. I would accept either of your answers, btw. Answers I have seen include "It is always SQL" and "make it ajax--ajax is fast."

The purpose is just to verify that they can put some ideas into writing, have a mental framework for debugging in place, and can verbally demonstrate any sort of familiarity with the technologies involved. It isn't a gotcha-type question that expects a specific answer.

edit: That said, your feedback is good and I will amend it to give more of an idea of how long a response is desirable.

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Re:Ask HN: What % of your job interviewees pass FizzBuzz typ... by ahi on Saturday September 17, 2011 @11:26PM (#3009396)

To be fair, it almost always is SQL and ajax is a decent way to hide unavoidable performance problems when everything else fails. Point taken though.

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Re:Ask HN: What % of your job interviewees pass FizzBuzz typ... by rmc on Saturday September 17, 2011 @11:19AM (#3008204)

Answers I have seen include "It is always SQL" and "make it ajax--ajax is fast."

Haha, I see what you mean, that is a wordy FizzBuzz

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