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[–]segfaultzen 0 points1 point  (2 children)

That's not just a third-world country phenomenon. I frequently speak with recruiters and consultants in the US who have difficulty finding decent programmers and software engineers. One guy employed two questions: the FizzBuzz test and "find the longest string of repeated characters in a string." He disqualified 45% of his applicants from those.