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by whateverfor 4613 days ago
These are people who have never (will never?) write any actual working code. Through a combination of lying on their resume/bullshitting interviews/hiding away during the actual job they've managed to get by. They are a small percentage of all "Programmers", but a large percentage of people looking for jobs (because they are more likely to be unemployed, more likely to fail an interview, and their best way to get a job is to try as many interviews as they can get).

I'd never be insulted by Fizzbuzz questions, it takes maybe a minute to solve and you can move from there to more interesting questions very easily. If Fizzbuzz is the closest thing to a time waste during the interview process, you're in pretty good shape.