It's not for that.
It weeds out people who can't write code at all.
Yes, tons of them do apply for dev jobs.
It weeds out people who can't write code at all.
Yes, tons of them do apply for dev jobs.
Wrong. Fizzbuzz is the epitome of a hiring test that is gamed by rote learning and adds absolutely nothing in terms of decisive info on wether s candidate is competent or not.
Your argument is like arguing in favour of using hello word in as many languages as possible and then claim that there is no need to memorize them because that's the point of the question.
that said i would only want to do it on a terminal, not on a whiteboard. i'd probably fuck that up somehow.
The concept of FizzBuzz? If you are a programmer you should be able to write a simple program with arithmetic and string manipulation. There's no reason an interviewer needs to ask exactly the FizzBuzz - but just something a bit like it. Asking the exact question from the blog is pretty lazy anyway.
For the love of god, please Google what fizzbuzz is.
People who need to memorize a solution to that have no business coding.
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.