FizzBuzz-type questions are for the first remotely technical interview, not once your programming credentials have already been established by the people who ar

FizzBuzz-type questions are for the first remotely technical interview, not once your programming credentials have already been established by the people who are interviewing you. You make it sound like the people interviewing you already know anything about you other than what's on your resume. It filters out a surprising number of people, including those with what appear to be very impressive resumes. I don't know what your definition of "hiring off the street" is, but if it means that the people interviewing you don't know anything about you prior to the interview, then that's pretty much all hiring for any company of any size (i.e., non-startups).