[digitallimit0]

My experience has been exactly the same as yours. My current career and company that I'm entirely excited be a part of never had me write code once during the interview process. I graduated an accredited college with a high GPA and had programmed in a student position for 4 years, at a startup for a couple months and a contract-to-hire governmental position for 1 month. Not the craziest experience, but I think it's silly to be so cynical to assume I can't write a simple fizzbuzz program after all of that.

[jshen]

You would be very surprised by how many people there are with n years of experience and a masters in comp sci who can't write fizzbuzz. In my experience it s close to 50% with a sample size of about 50 candidates.

[aidenn0]

You would think that, but I have personally watched people with "X years of development experience in language Y" for all sorts of X and Y unable to solve a relatively simple problem in language Y when given 4 hours (harder than fizzbuzz, but something I did in 1 hour in C when I interviewed)

[georgieporgie]

You probably aren't interviewing people yet. It is very eye opening when you start. I interviewed an elite consultant who claimed to be a C++ expert but did not understand how for loops worked.

I'm no fan of contrived questions or hard CS stuff in a functional engineering position, but many candidates cannot pass something like Fizzbuzz.