Fizzbuzz is not really about testing someones understanding of a modulus operator, it would be very easy to make an alternate fizzbuzz that does not require usi

Fizzbuzz is not really about testing someones understanding of a modulus operator, it would be very easy to make an alternate fizzbuzz that does not require using modulus, and arguably anyone hiring for a large company should have their own as fizzbuzz is pretty widely known. The point of fizzbuzz though is to make someone create a very simple algorithm on the spot. In my experience, there are some people in this world who simply lack the ability to structure their thoughts and plans into a complete set of ordered instructions. That's why you sometimes find recipes online that follow a structure like: 1. Dice the onions 2. Brown the mince for 5 minutes 3. But first, add the onions and tomato paste to the mince It's the same personality type that cleans a room by walking backwards and forwards to the cupboard of cleaning supplies as they need them rather than grabbing all the cleaning supplies they can predict needing first. Now, everyone does these kinds of things to a certain extent, but you can't program anything significant if you can't drop into an ordered mindset on command. Fizzbuzz tests your ability to do that without requiring you to know any apis or frameworks or computer science or even a programming language, since you can just as easily do it in psudocode.