I'm the parent who said the story (although parent I answered to was also using fizzbuzz it seems, which shows just how real it is) . And I totally understand w

I'm the parent who said the story (although parent I answered to was also using fizzbuzz it seems, which shows just how real it is) . And I totally understand what you mean, in that before I ran interviews I would probably never have believed it myself. Truth is, I think a lot of people in this field are not "bad" or "stupid", they simply don't care. That's what struck me the first couple of times, not that they failed fizzbuzz or to understand how simple of a problem it's supposed to be, but that they don't even copy it. At first you think it's a couple of bad apples, then you think you're really bad at choosing interviewee, then you get that no matter what, almost half of the people you see shouldn't even be working in that field. Frankly, it might not be politically correct to say that but running interviews had to be one of the best thing of my career for my self esteem.