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I think it's an extremely low bar to make sure a person even understands how to program. This isn't reversing a tree, or graph searching.

Fizzbuzz basically just tests you know how to use a conditional, do division/mod, and print to console.

I'd argue someone who cannot do those three things has no business applying for a dev job, regardless of how many times one actually needs to fizzbuzz in 'the real world.'



> Fizzbuzz basically just tests you know how to use a conditional, do division/mod, and print to console.

No, fizzbuzz test rote learning and it mainly serves to game the hiring system.




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