FizzBuzz: One Simple Interview Question

Published: 31 July 2017
on channel: Tom Scott
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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.

Imran's blog post: https://imranontech.com/2007/01/24/us...

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/

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And thanks to my proofreading team!

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