I never said I'd struggle with fizzbuzz. I said I'd struggle with fizzbuzz on _his_ whiteboard. Because it would give me anxiety to do it there in front of him, and it's not how I code or think. And this is a person who created a throwaway account on HN just to get into an argument, so I can imagine how the experience would be.

Getting the job @ Google was worth that stress. The original comment I made was to the effect of: before you dump a coding test on me, you better make sure it's worth the stress by convincing me why.

You'd struggle to find anyone in a freshman CS class a few weeks in who'd fail Fizzbuzz, excepting those who weren't going to last more than a year or two before switching majors and never coding again.