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No. You do not have to ask doctors or lawyers or taxi drivers fizzbuzz levels of questions. If applicants for doctors jobs were as incompetant as programming interviews, you'd have to ask applicants to location the ear on the human body. Doctor applicants aren't that incompetant, programmer applicants are.

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I've had plenty of taxi drivers who could barely drive, let alone find any given address in their city. And as for doctors, see my answer to potatolicious above - I've seen some terrifyingly incompetent ones who really should have been screened out with a fizzbuzz level question.

This is obviously a flawed analogy, since you don't need to be a doctor to locate the ear on a human body.

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