Picking problems for programming interviews.

Someone recently send me a note asking about whether their internal process for interviewing Staff engineers was a good one. They were particularly concerned that they were encountering a number of Staff-plus engineers who were struggling to write code for finding palindromes or reversing an array.

There is an oral tradition of programmers who simply cannot program, captured back in 2007 when Imran Ghory coined the idea of Fizzbuzz problems, along with the most canonical Fizzbuzz question:

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