Comment by shermantanktop

For the more senior candidates that I interview, I've seen people who talk a great game but cannot deliver, and others who can. Having them write fizzbuzz-type code is a primitive check that has led to surprising results - 25 year industry veterans with all kinds of great projects delivered, and...they can't write a for loop? They can't declare a variable? They don't know what final/const really does? I hate asking them to do it but I can't really stop.