[nolok]

> Like what a tree is or fizzbuzz? Hopefully it isn't that terrible...how someone can make it through any amount of CS related schooling and not know the basics?

Ah! You're in for some surprise down the line. Fizzbuzz almost always clear out large amount of applicants.

[basseq]

I was a CS major, but my career took a different direction, and I haven't programmed "professionally" for 8+ years. I looked up the FizzBuzz question and wrote some psuedocode in about 5m.

It's sad that FizzBuzz is such a "weeding out" tool, but I guess good to know that I can still pass the first round of an entry-level technical interview!

[nolok]

FizzBuzz (from the point of view of me as an interviewer) is not so much about knowing how to code, but understanding the thought process about basic problem solving. Read the instruction, provide a solution, don't over engineer. It also provides the basics, loop and conditional.

Once you're set on that, you at least know you have a person in front of you who, on the basic level, thinks like a programmer.

So I would say 8+ years doesn't matter so much and you shouldn't worry about that, as long as your mind can still "tick" the right way.

[vacri]

We had another applicant just last week with a shiny spiral-bound resume that looked good, but couldn't do FizzBuzz.