Well, I'm always a little baffled when I see such great techniques for rejecting potentially awesome candidates. Why overthink a toy example? The only purpose

Well, I'm always a little baffled when I see such great techniques for rejecting potentially awesome candidates. Why overthink a toy example? The only purpose served by fizzbuzz is to weed out people who can't write any code. If you want to know anything else, ask a more relevant technical question. It's downright lazy to simply jump to conclusions, and as a result you end up hiring the wrong person.