FizzBuzz: One Simple Interview Question



There are a lot of opinions on how to hire coders, and most of them are terrible. The opinions, that is, not the coders. But a basic filter test to make sure someone can do what they say they can: that seems reasonable, and FizzBuzz is one of the more common tests. Even now, interviewers use it. Let’s talk about why it’s tricky, and how to solve it.

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Imran’s blog post: https://imranontech.com/2007/01/24/using-fizzbuzz-to-find-developers-who-grok-coding/

Other approaches for pretty much every language: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/FizzBuzz

Thanks to the Cambridge Centre for Computing History: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/

The thing behind me is their Megaprocessor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMO3dZAizb4

And thanks to my proofreading team!

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