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we both know those people make it past fizbuzz anyways, and they are left in the dust fairly quickly anyways.



And that's why Amazon's phone-interview coding exercise is a rather complicated coding question delivered under proctoring, rather than simply fizzbuzz itself: to actually filter those people out early and avoid the cost of flying them to Seattle, rather than just "going through the motions" of doing so.


We both know these are the people you were advocating hiring in your previous post.




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