[sjaak]

When I ask people to code FizzBuzz I:

  - give them ~30 minutes on their own machine
  - they get to pick the language they code in
  - I leave the room for large parts of it
  - I bring them a drink
  - I tell them I want to see what they can do and that I don't care if they complete it
  - permit them to search on the internet (as long as they don't copy/paste a solution)

I see this usually:

  - they finish in a few minutes
  - they just can't do it, even with hints

[arethuza]

Yes that sounds pretty sensible.

Do you ever have a conversation with these people as to why they think they couldn't do it?

[johnnyanmac]

> permit them to search on the internet

really? they get 30 minutes + internet and they couldn't google "javascript how to get divisible by 3"? That's just bad research at that point.