[KnobbleMcKnees]

What a silly story. They applied for a job that made it clear they were looking for someone who could proficiently program, and they couldn't do it. So they didn't get the job. What a surprise.

Asking for a list of tasks that will come up or code examples is particularly naive. Technical jobs aren't a laundry list of exact needs.

Being an engineer in any field requires versatility, including the ability to solve problems on your feet and to learn new technology, or to learn tech you already know to a greater depth, at the drop of a hat.

This is one of the few times I've ever read a story about impostor syndrome where the story teller actually was an impostor. Bizarre.

[mike_hock]

The story is hilarious, because FizzBuzz actually worked as the hiring filter it was designed to be!

"Write FizzBuzz" - "OMG, MATH!"

Impostor meets Dunning-Kruger.

[adastra22]

I think you missed the point of the story, which was that the company was asking for a combination of skills that never exist in the same person. An unicorn. In that context it is reasonable to assume that if you have the core competency (in this case design skills, not coding), then you should apply.

Also fizz buzz has nothing to do with the kind of programming that was expected from the job description. Now you might reasonably object that fizz buzz is supposed to be something so rudimentary that any programmer could implement. But the point is UI/UX people don't typically do any algorithms work at all. Their interaction with JS is often just to call an API and shove the resulting data where it needs to be in the DOM. They may never have to use a loop, ever. Or conditional testing. Or think about infinite sequences. To a proper software engineer like you or me fizz buzz seems ridiculously simple. But I could totally see a UX designer whose only interaction with self-taught JS is to glue APIs together being tripped up.

[nickelpro]

FizzBuzz is an "algorithm" in the same way that touching one's toes is gymnastics.

[KnobbleMcKnees]

> I think you missed the point of the story, which was that *the company was asking for a combination of skills that never exist in the same person.*

I've asked the people I work with that have this combination of skills but, unfortunately, they all popped out of existence the moment the question left my mouth.

Perhaps they were impostors too?

[bombolo]

So you're saying that you don't expect UI developers to ever implement a test?