A few years ago I was hiring for a non-coding role with a company that pops up here on HN periodically. The interview was entirely leetcode. I completely blew it because I was so flummoxed that this was how they were interviewing for the role. I tried asking some non-code related questions about the role and company and was shut down from even being able to ask - it was clear their expectation was that the interview process was a one-way street.
It wasn't the straw that broke the camel's back, but it was a chain of things that led me to finally conclude it was time to move on in my career. That is, jumping through these kinds of interviews might have been something I'd do at 20-something, but at 40-something I've got other options and am not willing to put up with it. The hiring process in the software industry is completely broken in how it assesses talent.
Can I write pseudo code that doesn't compile, is an amalgamation of various languages and probably understandable by anyone that can code even though there's probably no language w/ that syntax out there but it get the idea across perfectly? Sure!
foreach (number in numbersYouWantMeToFizzBuzz) {
if(number MOD 15 eq 0) print fizzbuzz
else if(number MOD 3 eq 0) print fizz
else if(number MOD 5 eq 0) print buzz
else print number
}
Don't have the {}? Who cares, you might be a python guy. Don't have the indentation? Meh you pass but my next question will be about formatting and what you think about applying a standard code style (and fail PRs automatically if it doesn't etc). You used % because your language uses that for MOD? Sure.