Instead of considering me an asshole, maybe you could think of it as a silent protest done in an intelligent fashion. You are indicating I am a fraud by employing FizzBuzz on me, I am trying to maneuver out of it by showing you my dominance and the level of my abstract thinking you won't reach. Now who is a bigger asshole when it comes down to it? You started it... I'd have preferred a reasonable interview to be honest, but when it comes to responding to unreasonable requests, I can do my part... I value my time, you attempted to offend me, so in order to get something out of it for myself instead of writing off that time segment, I have some fun with your inability to understand. If this offends you, you were repaid in kind.
Once again, I am not employing fizzbuzz on anyone.
But it's not indicating you are a fraud, it's indicating that some people in your situation are frauds, which lamentably appears to be the case.
And your response to this situation where someone who at this point knows only what's on your CV and therefore hasn't yet ruled out the possibility that you might be a fraud gives you the chance to show you aren't one is ... to "show[] you my dominance"? Yeah, that's definitely a good idea in an interview situation.
No one "attempted to offend" you. (Well, I dare say people have from time to time. But if you interview for a job and someone asks you to write a fizzbuzz program, they are not doing it because they want to offend you.) They were in the unfortunate situation of having to hire someone in an environment where some candidates turn out to be much worse at the job than the readily available evidence suggests. They gave you a chance to show that you aren't one of those candidates. You took offence at that because somehow the interviewer was supposed to just know that you're one of the good ones, and reacted by trying to demonstrate your "dominance". I suppose the good news here is that everyone's glad you didn't get that job.
(As for "the level of my abstract thinking you won't reach", once again you are making assumptions that go beyond what you actually know. Like it or not, some people who are plenty capable of abstract thinking use fizzbuzz-like interview questions.)
We are talking in hypotheticals, don't know each other, so my "view of you" is just imaginary, don't take it seriously. Also, putting words in your mouth was again just an abstract linguistic device, "what if"... However, I simply object to the use of FizzBuzz; there are like millions other problems which I can get, but if somebody uses this one because "it was cool on Reddit/HN/etc.", it just leaves a very bad impression, and I was expressing my feelings here (as I am well aware of the original article and the trend it started since). If you created your own simple check, I wouldn't object (likely during phone screen?), but I would consider you an arrogant asshole if you gave me specifically FizzBuzz, as its use implies infamous "idiot"/fraud assumption and became a part of programming folklore with really ugly connotations attached.
