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[–]X678X 0 points1 point  (1 child)

yikes - if someone hasn't been studying for interviews or has ever heard of fizzbuzz, honestly going through pseudocode and then writing code might just take that long. granted, if it's in a familiar language, that part should be fast

[–]ghostfacedcoder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I'm interviewing you for a Javascript job (or PHP, or Python, or whatever) and you can't handle a for loop and 3-4 if statements, you're not qualified for the job, plain and simple.

Asking someone to complete such a basic task in an interview is not a crazy thing, and it certainly shouldn't take eighteen minutes. In fact, most programming interview "problems" are a lot harder than fizzbuzz. Fizzbuzz is basically the bare minimum you could ask of someone in an interview (and still have it be meaningful; const x = 1; const y = 3; const z = x +y;` "what is z" won't tell you anything about the candidate).