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Re:Three hundred programming interviews in thirty days by dagw on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @03:37PM (#9767179)
Doing well on the fizzbuzz problems was not very correlated.

I think you're mis-using fizbuzz. You cannot really 'do well' on it. You can basically pass it or fail it. Failing means you're probably no good, but passing it doesn't prove anything.

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Re:Three hundred programming interviews in thirty days by ammon on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @04:45PM (#9767657)
Yeah, I just mean "short programming problems of a difficultly similar to fizzbuzz"
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Re:Three hundred programming interviews in thirty days by mwfunk on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @08:30PM (#9768794)
That's the same thing though. If it's the same level of difficulty as fizzbuzz, it serves the same purpose: you can fail at it, but you can't really do well at it. All you can do is not fail.
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