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As someone with much more experience developing software than experience interviewing for positions, I find the whole fizz buzz interview style perplexing. Internally I am thinking 'why the hell are you asking me these questions when you could be asking me far more interesting ones?' The answer is likely that they didn't read my resume, so maybe what the best interviewers have in common is that they read candidates' resumes before the interview.

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I think the implication of the OP is that all resumes are presumed to be composed entirely of lies, unless proven otherwise.

To be frank, if an interviewer began asking me questions with that assumption, I would not be offended and would be able to back up any part of my resume with deep answers (or else I wouldn't put it on there), but I would think less of the company and think less of the interviewer.

If no benefit of the doubt is offered to me, I will most likely reciprocate and would assume the company doesn't trust employees to do their job. I'd probably be correct too.

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