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"Weeds out people who didn't memorize an answer to a well known test."

For the love of god, please Google what fizzbuzz is.

People who need to memorize a solution to that have no business coding.



> For the love of god, please Google what fizzbuzz is.

Yes, please do google what fizzbuzz is. You'll eventually stumble upon resources on how to memorize fizzbuzz, which is such a Hallmark of the test that it's even explicitly mentioned in the C2 wiki on fizzbuzz.


The test can't tell if you can think through a problem or just googled technical interview common questions and memorized some answers: Crammers can pass as easily as problem solvers can.




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