And that's where we disagree. I think this whole "FizzBuzz" craze is as equally stupid as the riddle craze was. My brain, right now, is working on a way to po

And that's where we disagree. I think this whole "FizzBuzz" craze is as equally stupid as the riddle craze was. My brain, right now, is working on a way to pop messages off of a RabbitMQ queue onto a clustered pool of Akka workers while minimizing the duplication of work and avoiding race conditions in the output. My career experience is in Java with a sprinkling of Python. I honestly cannot recall off the top of my head the I/O Api to do that task. Let alone on a whiteboard or in some shared google doc. Hm, I need to open a file. OK, no problem - new java.io.File(path). Er, wait, I remember there's a FileReader. Probably should use that. Do I need a File first? Or can I just give FileReader the path? Ah, shit - I need to read each line. I think that's a BufferedReader. How do I get from a FileReader to a BufferedReader? Is it constructor param? Wait, maybe FileReader _IS_A_ BufferedReader. So, I 'fail' the interview with you. Maybe your company has a need for someone who can write a 10 line script that can read a file line by line without having to look at the API while being timed. In that case, yes, you probably have weeded out a bad candidate.