It will probably depend on your hiring pipeline. In an established pipeline an engineer interviewing someone who can't code FizzBuzz is kind of a disaster. The recruiter asks their questions for the purposes of filtering out these types of people.
However, if you're in an early stage startup just getting started hiring you'll probably see a lot of these people. It will also depend on what type of engineer you're hiring. Most people with a couple years of software engineering experience under their belt can probably code FizzBuzz. If you're interviewing recent graduates it's a different story.
> It will probably depend on your hiring pipeline. In an established pipeline an engineer interviewing someone who can't code FizzBuzz is kind of a disaster. The recruiter asks their questions for the purposes of filtering out these types of people.
Our pipeline is run by the individual teams. All our recruiting team does is coarse filter the resumes for obvious rejects and collect basic information. All screening is done by actual members of the team.
I don't think it is a particularly burdensome, though it does get tedious if a req sits open for a while.
> It will also depend on what type of engineer you're hiring. Most people with a couple years of software engineering experience under their belt can probably code FizzBuzz. If you're interviewing recent graduates it's a different story.
I have only been involved in experienced hires, but the claims I read indicate the problem is just as widespread in the experienced people. That I cannot corroborate with personal experience. I can buy the new grad claim, though. It is disturbingly easy it get through a BSCS without being able to write a functioning program in some language.
However, if you're in an early stage startup just getting started hiring you'll probably see a lot of these people. It will also depend on what type of engineer you're hiring. Most people with a couple years of software engineering experience under their belt can probably code FizzBuzz. If you're interviewing recent graduates it's a different story.