I predict that very soon you are going to be offered a remote job paying more than €50,000/year. That’s due to this excellent post about your excellent abilities and reasoning appearing on HN. ¡Mucha suerte!
That isn’t much money, even for Europe
The FizzBuzz that did not get me the job
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#22I predict that very soon you are going to be offered a remote job paying more than €50,000/year. That’s due to this excellent post about your excellent abilities and reasoning appearing on HN. ¡Mucha suerte!
That isn’t much money, even for Europe
I’m referring to specifics in the article. The interview was for a remote job paying €50K/year.
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#24I think you’re an A player. You were rejected by a B player that was looking to hire C players. Apply to other companies. In this case it’s not you, it’s them.
To be fair, we only heard one side of the story
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#25You need an enterprise FizzBuzz implementation to pass the interview.
https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
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#26I loved the article and would probably have hired this person. But as a suggestion to them: if an interviewer says "I don't think that will be a good idea" just take the hint that it won't be what the expect and change it. Also reminded me of my compiler class, we had some homework to write a pascal/C transpiler and a friend of mine somehow managed to implement it via bison errors(?). The teacher was not happy but ha…
> if an interviewer says "I don't think that will be a good idea" just take the hint that it won't be what the expect and change it.
I'd like to underline this just in case the author reads the thread. He really does seem great and I wish all the best to him, but reading between the lines is a useful skill regardless of this specific situation. He says he doesn't speak English well, that might have played a role in the misunderstanding, but "I don't think that will be a good idea" is not a suggestion, it's an order.
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#27To me, the rules given to you are pure gatekeeping. The fact that even after they had given successively more restrictive rules for what should be a trivial program they then verbally restricted you further confirms this. I would question whether this was actually an interview for a real job or not but in any case it's not you it's them.
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#28Very clever! Also, I’d steer absolutely clear of any company that does this. This doesn’t assess anything meaningful, it’s an ego trip for the interviewer. Ugh.
Yep. All those extra rules missed the entire point of FizzBuzz - people who have trouble writing code fail at even simple thing like FizzBuzz.
The extra rules presented sequentially and their interactions might have revealed more about both parties, but it's hard to tell without seeing them in person.
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#29Asking a trivial question is a simple way to test a person’s basic skill but also more importantly his ability to communicate and work with others who may not have the same level of expertise.
If you use it as a chance to make a mockery of the interview process/interviewer then perhaps that is not a good idea if you actually want the job.
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#30> ...the first time in life I spoke english.
Well, there you go. Typescript can only get you so far. Unless you want to be a low-paid code monkey, time to learn natural languages.
ps. I have many Spanish colleagues, and I have a hard time understanding them in general (when they speak English). Only one other nation is worse, the French...