Yes. I definitely should have clarified that I mean "if you can't write FizzBuzz in the first few minutes of the interview..." not as the only question in an ho

Yes. I definitely should have clarified that I mean "if you can't write FizzBuzz in the first few minutes of the interview..." not as the only question in an hour-long interview. I've used a FizzBuzz-like question as the first question of a phone screen, for example, to determine if more in-depth questions are a waste of everyone's time. I agree entirely that it doesn't prove anything about a candidate's likely success as a hire, but it is a reasonably strong signal about their likely failure.