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I think it is a very reasonable test. There are other industries that regulate themselves in other ways. For example, a huge training process and then jail time for lying about it, for doctors or lawyers. Or other ways to eliminate the risk like hiring as contractors for specific jobs, or comission based payment.

For a senior role:

1. Someone who can't write and debug a for-loop and an if-statement isn't going to be able to provide training and support to junior level hires. At all.

2. Making high-level changes and performance improvement both require good process discipline, and the ability to write a lot of code to actually accomplish it.

I think there are high value software management tactics that can be implemented without knowing how to code, for example, change control, or enforcing limits on work in progress via. kanban, but for a role that has either "software" or "developer" I think fizzbuzz is a very low bar.

I personally like binary search as in interview question. The basic principle is simple, but there are enough edge cases and variations to make it interesting.