> I'm talking like 50% of the candidates, and one guy even asked if he could take it home and send me the code.
I'm still trying to reconcile this with my own experience at work. I work for a university department, and hire student employees. Zero people have ever failed our fizzbuzz question on the interview, while it was on there.
You would think that post graduation there would be a _lower_ number of degree holders who can't code.
There are a lot of "HTML programmer" types out there who piece together snippets without ever having to think about how best to solve a problem, deal with the fundamentals of computer arithmetic, or data structures. These people can't do fizzbuzz or something simple like construct a linked list (good one for the managed code generation used to containers).
> You would think that post graduation there would be a _lower_ number of degree holders who can't code.
I think that there are a good number of people who manage to float through life, never really producing anything, just claiming to be idea men, or appearing busy but never quite delivering, or …
Even if they did once know how to program, it's conceivable that they've forgotten.
I'm still trying to reconcile this with my own experience at work. I work for a university department, and hire student employees. Zero people have ever failed our fizzbuzz question on the interview, while it was on there.
You would think that post graduation there would be a _lower_ number of degree holders who can't code.