[cs02rm0]

When I proposed adding FizzBuzz to our screening process, I got a fair amount of pushback from the team that it was a waste of the candidates' time.

I've had the same, I was a contractor and not usually involved in the hiring process but I'd been asked for a question they could take to a candidate.

One of the team at the time was a young Maths grad, super bright but prone to being over confident. So I wrote a clear FizzBuzz question, passed him the pen and paper and asked him if he was sure when he was done. There was some minor issue, a boundary issue one think and he was livid with himself. So they took it to the candidate and apparently it was a bit of a disaster.

Personally, the first time I came across it was in an interview and I quite enjoyed it - simple enough to not be threatening but I guess sufficiently able to show I could write code as they offered me the role. They asked some extra questions too with some extensions and about how you could unit test it.

Beats having to implement red-black trees by remembering the crib sheet you read the day before.