> To play devil's advocate: difficult coding questions are a way to minimize false positives
Apparently, Fizz-Buzz is still a "difficult" coding question, considering the number of candidates that still squirm at the prospect of answering it.
Apparently, Fizz-Buzz is still a "difficult" coding question, considering the number of candidates that still squirm at the prospect of answering it.
What are you talking about? The question is basically just a gotcha to catch out folks that don't know about the modulo operator. Or is this satire and I completely missed the joke?
That you cannot find a an elegant solution to what seems like it should have one is what makes it difficult. A good sign of a good programmer is then you ask them about their code after it works they will say they don't like this solution and would like to spend time making it cleaner. If you know there isn't an elegant solution of course you won't bother spending that time, but if you don't know that if seems like there should be a better answer if you can just restructure the code a little.