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> and not a lot/any real choice or nuance.

Exactly! And people still get it wrong.

It's a low-pass filter to weed out programmers who can't even do FizzBuzz, because despite their lack of coding prowess their résumé will still look similar to yours.

> and not feel like there's some degree of insult involved.

That's just reading far too much in to it.



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