Alternate FizzBuzz Questions [closed]

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Anybody have any good FizzBuzz type questions that are not the FizzBuzz problem?

I am interviewing someone and FB is relatively well known and not that hard to memorize, so my first stop in a search for ideas is my new addiction SO.

Answer 1

Any of the early ones from Project Euler would probably be good.

For example:

Problem 25

The Fibonacci sequence is defined by the recurrence relation:

Fn = Fn−1 + Fn−2, where F1 = 1 and F2 = 1.

Hence the first 12 terms will be:

F1 = 1
F2 = 1
F3 = 2
F4 = 3
F5 = 5
F6 = 8
F7 = 13
F8 = 21
F9 = 34
F10 = 55
F11 = 89
F12 = 144

The 12th term, F12, is the first term to contain three digits.

What is the index of the first term in the Fibonacci sequence to contain 1000 digits?

Answer 2

Ask them to write an app to return the factors of a given number. It's easy to do and hard to do well in a short period of time. You can see their style and the way they think through problems in a small amount of time.