[rewmie]

> FizzBuzz is a trivial technical problem (...)

No, it is not. The term fizzbuzz doesn't refer explicitly to the loop with the modulus example. Fizzbuzz is an umbrella term for tests that are used to assess proficiency, but in practice they tend to have weird gotchas that get you disqualified for random reasons.

Case in point, there are online coding challenge tests where you do fizzbuzz tests that flag you as disqualified for cheating if you move your focus away from the page. That's one way to fail fizzbuzz tests: you start the test, switch your browser window, boom you're tagged as an incompetent moron.

[ursakhiin]

Why wouldn't FizzBuzz refer explicitly to the challenge that shares its name?

[shermantanktop]

I said “FizzBuzz-level.” I’ve used actual FizzBuzz for new grads who I suspected couldn’t code, but normally I’m using questions that require looping, conditional logic, perhaps the use of a simple helper data structure like a map. I consider “reverse a string” to be advanced FizzBuzz. Anything requiring DFS or binary search is not FizzBuzz. “Print a tic tac toe board using asterisks, one character at a time” is FizzBuzz.