[bootsmann]

Disagree, this is a significant step up from the leetcode-style programming puzzles that other companies do. It doesn't bank on the interviewee knowing the specific trick that makes the puzzle work and instead tries to somewhat test the skills that are more significant for the job at hand like debugging, refactoring and dealing with changing requirements.

[Mawr]

That was likely the thought process of the interviewers, however wrong.

FizzBuzz works well enough as a lowest common denominator screening test, but it doesn't scale up. At its core, it's an entirely made up problem with no relevance to anything you may ever do at a job. How do you evaluate requirements for a problem that is not real?

The higher level the skills you want to test, the more realistic your questions have to get.

[bluGill]

A real job is often simialar to fizzbuzz in that there is no eligant solutians. There are several solutions but they all have some special case. a real world problem would take you a week to solve though and so we can't give them to you in an hour.

[pclowes]

Most leetcode questions are just asking if you can recognize the same 15 core CS algorithms in different situations and pick the right one.

A few have a trick or insight but I haven’t ran across those in interviews.