Jeff Atwood
Programmer and writer; co-founder of Stack Overflow and Discourse, and author of the Coding Horror blog.
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FizzBuzz-style screening is needed because many people applying for programming jobs cannot program.
Their wordsApparently, FizzBuzz style screening is required to keep interviewers from wasting their time interviewing programmers who can’t program.
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Their wordsMaybe it’s foolish to begin interviewing a programmer without looking at their code first.
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Computers change but people do not, so understanding people is how you make better software
Their wordsWhy are updates to my reading list so rare? Because computers change a lot in 10 years, but people don't. To make better software, you need to understand how people work, and that is what the books I recommend tend to focus on.
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Their wordsThe vast majority of software development projects will fail: they will overrun their schedules, produce substandard results, or sometimes not even finish at all. This isn't an argument; it's a statistical fact.