[rachelbythebay]

This might come as a surprise, but a whole bunch of people going around out there have no clue whatsoever when it comes to this stuff. They believed in the race to the bottom, that literally anyone can do this kind of thing, and decided to back it up when applying.

I'm not saying you're getting all of the bad ones, but there's probably something going on if a supposedly simple problem (this, FizzBuzz, pick whatever you want) fails. Yeah, I know, someone's going to mention the environment, and the pressure of it being an interview, and that's certainly true.

All I can say to that is that I've posed FizzBuzz itself to someone who claimed aptitude, totally randomly over a chat session, not as part of an interview, just us chatting randomly. I think we were actually talking about how interviewing was such a pain. They themselves talked a great deal... but then never delivered on it.

Besides, you work at Google. Don't you see this all around you? They're already on the inside.