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also, it show if a candidate is actually a gung-ho code monkey or has some methods in his coding.

our fizzbuz variant asks to print numbers from 1-100, and basically everyone among the few that did the fizzbuz part right got that part wrong, mostly printing 0-99 but also had one 0-100 printed.

this doesn't immediately disqualify a candidate of course, because the are a lot of reasons behind the mistake including the interview stress, but on requisite driven project attention to details is a major benefit.



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