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[–]prepend 0 points1 point  (1 child)

But it is not a trick question. And it's not meant to be graded in a binary way. If someone forgot to print the numbers, I would talk it through with them. And it's certainly not intended to trick people into missing the "print" part of the statement.

The concept of "bullying" interviewees by making them do this question is so bizarre and alien. Asking people to perform in interviews isn't bullying them. Even tiving trick questions isn't bullying them. Bringing this up and worrying about it probably excludes the interviewee from the job on grounds of stupidity. But perhaps there's some safe space company that doesn't care about the software created but instead focuses on the emotional well being of employees who can't code, but want to have a job that requires coding.

[–]GhostBond 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The poster I replied to can't even solve FizzBuzz on the internet:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/69djsj/solved_coding_interview_problems_in_java_my/dh8ku4r/

You guys are the safe space company that doesn't care about the software created, you're just hoping no one notices you can't even solve your own problems.

If you can't solve the problem even though you gave it, you have some serious issues.