I worked for a while for an IT services company.  For our entry level tech support position, I put together a quick interview document that we emailed applicants, asking them 4 questions.  They had to help someone fix their printer via email, fix their email client, write a powershell script to copy files from one directory to another, and solve FizzBuzz.<p>We honestly didn&#x27;t care if they blatantly plagiarized the answers (especially on the last two), because the point was the right answer as much to see if they knew enough vocabulary to know how to Google the question.<p>Out of 30 responses, including recent college graduates with good GPAs, people claiming 20+ years of IT experience, owning their own IT consulting firm, etc, not one of them got all four right.  Some even said, &quot;I don&#x27;t know how to solve this&quot; on FizzBuzz.<p>The person who actually got them all correct?  My wife, an ESL teacher who I gave the questions as a control, and told her to not spend more than 15 minutes on them.<p>Anyone who overthinks FizzBuzz is an automatic hire in my book.  (yes, I know about <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;items&#x2F;2005&#x2F;01&#x2F;27.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;items&#x2F;2005&#x2F;01&#x2F;27.html</a> )