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Re:On Interviewing Software Engineers by Tenhundfeld on Thursday June 18, 2015 @01:58PM (#9740464)
And you think if I solve fizzbuzz in 15 minutes on a sheet of paper, you can be sure I can handle those things?

That's the part I don't get. It's so arbitrary and artificial. All you can be sure of is that I can solve fizzbuzz in 15 minutes.

> Programming profession is hard and full of rough edges, unfortunately.

I agree completely, but I think paper programming exercises produce false positives AND false negatives.

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