Working at Netflix

Re:Working at Netflix by RogerL on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @08:33PM (#8920951)

Well, that is just it. Certainly 100% of the people I have ever worked with, even the bad ones, can write a for loop and an if statement. I mistrust the process more than I mistrust the people, though I suppose maybe the same bad people and endlessly interviewing.

50% of working programmers can't write a for loop? Does that square with your experience outside of interviewing?

I don't quite buy the whole fizz-buzz story, though I don't have an adequate explanation for what could cause these kinds of failure rates. Something seems very off.

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Re:Working at Netflix by SilasX on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @12:24AM (#8921616)

>50% of working programmers can't write a for loop? Does that square with your experience outside of interviewing?

Not 50% of working programmers, but of the programmer applicant pool. The applicants who can find jobs quickly aren't in the pool very long, and so it's dominated by the fakers and those who otherwise shouldn't be there. ... Which should make the reported phenomenon a little more believable.

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