Miss Dada  🏳️‍⚧️

The FizzBuzz thing *is* weird. I interviewed people at Palm, NVidia and other great companies using C, and 50% of people with good resumes couldn't code at all. Seriously, not at *all*. In Ruby-land, that hasn't been true when I interview.

But I've often wondered whether the FizzBuzz phenomenon was a stress or anxiety response.

That *could* explain why it might happen more often at larger (and more anxiety-inducing) companies. It doesn't seem to explain how these candidates manage to show up at the interview with their shoes tied and their clothes on -- but stress and anxiety are pretty weird things.

It might be. But even really trivial problems seemed to just be too much. Like, FizzBuzz is often the *right* test for that :-/ Presumably even stress or anxiety wouldn't have that effect, at least on that number of people.

I’ve failed a fizzbuzz test.

Any insight about why/how that happened?

100% nerves. I get irrationally nervous when you put me at a whiteboard.