[quanto]

I appreciate the sympathy, but, in this particular case, the question was part of homework, not on-the-spot pop whiteboarding. To this day, I find this curious. I asked folks at other firms, too, and apparently, this kind of phenomenon is common. Hence, all the damning statistics about the FizzBuzz.

[lifeisstillgood]

My story: Years ago I went across country (ok it's UK!) for a position with an education startup. It was an all-day-er. The morning went well I aced the in person stuff, we gelled. Then I started to realise why I was there. Was I risking my marriage by taking a cross country position? Is the CEO just a bit too full of himself? What don't I trust about the product manager?

At the end is a hands on leet-code test. I cannot for the life of me remember what it was about. I do remember writing a function to replace 'abs', and realising that my brain was not even in the same county.

Yeah. People fail for all sorts of reasons. But when it's odd, maybe it is them. But beware. Maybe it's you.

I am glad I flunked hard in Bristol. I think I would have hated it. But then if I was a rubbish coder I would say that too.

[tloup]

Proctored homework? If not, I don't understand how he couldn't come up with a solution at all.

[DarylZero]

You can speculate but anyway there are all kinds of reasons a person can fail to do something that they are in fact capable of doing.

Sometimes people who have DECADES of walking experience just... fall.