I don't think FizzBuzz leads into interesting interview questions. That would be too dependent on the hope that the candidate does implement an overkill solutio

I don't think FizzBuzz leads into interesting interview questions. That would be too dependent on the hope that the candidate does implement an overkill solution for fizzbuzz. Much more interesting questions can be derived from the problems the company is actually working on. FizzBuzz is a simple "can you code at all" filter. If you write the obvious solution, you move on to the actual interview. If you write an elegant and amusing solution, you move on to the actual interview. Surprisingly most applicants for programming positions cannot write any code that uses a for loop or an if statement at all, and fizzbuzz is a 3-minute test to prevent everyone from wasting their time.