[quote=ucodegen]It sounds like interviewers are going to have to come up with another test… One of the links you provided for the ‘FizzBuzz’ test had a bunch of solutions, and I could just believe someone not good with writing programs would try to memorize one of them in planning for a tech interview.

One of the things that does surprise me is how far some of these people get when there is no technical interview questions. In a previous job, I had to deal with someone who was supposedly senior to me working on the same project I was. The project was broken down into applications (C++ network comm/data processing and ‘rendering’ code for various parts of the system). The project this person was working on was not getting anywhere. The Proj Mgr put an additional senior person on the that particular application – and still no forward movement. I got thrown into the mix by the Proj Mgr to try to figure what the heck was going on and found out that the person who was supposedly senior to me was loosing track of code changes made by himself, was not coordinating with the other person he was to be working with, was not integrating the other persons changes (they were getting dropped on the floor) and that was literally having problems programming basic algebraic equations.[/quote]

There’s a solution to this. You tweak the problem slightly so that if the candidate gives you one of the canned answers on the internet, you know that in addition to the person not being able to write any code, the person is also dishonest with trying to cover it up.