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Comment author: Azathoth123 18 October 2014 12:31:47AM 11 points [-]

(see also 99.5% of programming job candidates fail the FizzBuzz test, though this seems a stretch).

This is misleading. Bad programmers spend more time interviewing before being hired, thus the pool of job interview candidates is biased towards bad programmers.

Comment author: therufs 19 October 2014 06:25:37PM 4 points [-]

It isn't cited + it seems awfully high -> the number is probably exaggerated at some level of intentionality

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