[sn9]

I feel like you and everyone else are missing the obvious explanation: people who claim to be from a top 10 CS program who can't solve FizzBuzz in a few minutes lied about their background.

I find it hard to believe that anyone who has spent more than a week programming couldn't solve FizzBuzz. Even if they somehow weren't familiar with the modulo operator, you could just explain how it worked.

FizzBuzz is a way of easily filtering con artists.

[crimsonalucard]

You could be right. At the same time as unrealistic as it may be, I feel during interviews smart qualified people just screw up and have brain farts all the time.

An interview is almost like public speaking combined with an intense time based coding competition without allowing you to use an IDE.

I think a good number of these guys are lying. I agree with you. But I also think a good number are honest and actually failing.