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Written by Tane Piper ⁂ on 2025-01-25 at 12:33

Honestly, if you are still using FizzBuzz in 2025 as a hiring question, you don't deserve the best developers. If you're still demanding a university-level education for a full stack developer you're going to be missing out on some great individual contributors.

I get that smaller companies can't afford to mis-hire, but they are also not a FAANG - when I read this, I doubt I would have passed.

https://kranga.notion.site/The-fizzbuzz-that-did-not-get-me-the-job-180e7c22ef3b80c3a386f7f8de720ac7

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Written by gaytabase on 2025-01-25 at 12:34

@tanepiper honestly if you make people do a coding test when they have a fairly good career's worth of code on github you don't deserve good developers.

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Written by Tane Piper ⁂ on 2025-01-25 at 12:45

@dysfun this still triggers me occasionally (although I'm quite happy that I didn't go to Miro) - this was about 25 minutes of the interview... The question was "How would you build a plugin system for Miro?"

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Written by @pndc on 2025-01-25 at 12:47

@tanepiper Interviewers often forget that the test goes both ways, and the candidate is forming an opinion about the suitability of the company from it.

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Written by Tane Piper ⁂ on 2025-01-25 at 12:52

@pndc oh indeed. A few years back when I was interviewing, the recruiters were shocked when I said "No" when I had passed on jobs - but yep, the companies did not give off "good vibes"

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