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Re:Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts by silisili on Monday March 20, 2023 @06:17PM (#35239594)
I think it's an extremely low bar to make sure a person even understands how to program. This isn't reversing a tree, or graph searching.

Fizzbuzz basically just tests you know how to use a conditional, do division/mod, and print to console.

I'd argue someone who cannot do those three things has no business applying for a dev job, regardless of how many times one actually needs to fizzbuzz in 'the real world.'

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Re:Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts by simplotek on Monday March 20, 2023 @07:34PM (#35240410)
> Fizzbuzz basically just tests you know how to use a conditional, do division/mod, and print to console.

No, fizzbuzz test rote learning and it mainly serves to game the hiring system.

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