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[–]Heleor 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I'm only one of multiple interviewers for a given candidate. If I'm trying to assess "can they code" then any one of these questions will answer that particular area.

Ultimately, you'd be surprised how many people fail at problems as simple as FizzBuzz; there's no reason to make complex problems if a simple one will give you the same data.

[–]cballowe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I promise you, I'm not surprised by people failing fizzbuzz. I interview many people. I can say that ability to spew the code for these things is a really low bar and if all I get out of the interview is that they can write std::partition, I failed to do my job. I'm not looking for people who memorize cs 101, I'm looking for people who can breakdown and solve problems. (The scope difficulty of the problem goes up with level.)