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What percentage of your job interview candidates pass FizzBuzz style questions? Any tips to improve the signal to noise ratio?
Actual code that works (and running it from a terminal), we are seeing only about 15% tops maybe lower.
We have started sending a fizzbuzz-ish question, a relatively easy css question, and a word-problem about performance as pre-interview questions through recruiters. This has dropped our resume inflow dramatically and saved a lot of time, but that's depressing in a way.
We are looking for a Rails or PHP dev in waltham (near boston) currently without a lot of luck. The job has a lot of pros, but probably doesn't do itself justice on-paper.
In the actual interview, I find that most give up after spitting out some pseudocode. About 40% have reasonable psuedo code that makes me think they'd get there (but these half-answers don't give me enough confidence to give them a thumbs up). Actual code that works (and running it from a terminal), we are seeing only about 15% tops maybe lower. We have started sending a fizzbuzz-ish question, a relatively easy css q…
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As I remember fizzbuzz (print numbers 1 thru x, then fizz if divisible by 3, buzz if divisible by 5, fizzbuzz if divisible by both)
I did it in a text editor in under a minute. Got two errors because I did it without thinking, fixed it, and had a working solution in 90 seconds. It's taking me longer to write this response.
I can't imagine anyone who writes code daily who couldn't get this right in under 5 minutes given a text editor and a way to run the code, but I could imagine plenty of people who trying to do it on a sheet of paper who would make goofs. And most of those would make good employees.
In the actual interview, I find that most give up after spitting out some pseudocode. About 40% have reasonable psuedo code that makes me think they'd get there (but these half-answers don't give me enough confidence to give them a thumbs up). Actual code that works (and running it from a terminal), we are seeing only about 15% tops maybe lower. We have started sending a fizzbuzz-ish question, a relatively easy css q…
> We are looking for a Rails or PHP dev in waltham (near boston) currently without a lot of luck. The job has a lot of pros, but probably doesn't do itself justice on-paper. Are you attending local PHP and Ruby/Rails meetups and user groups? If none are available, consider starting one.
I'm curious what candidates are getting stuck on. Is it the testing for divisibility that's tripping them up?