For Christ sake. There was never any need to memorize fizz buzz, that's the whole point of the damn question. It tests an applicants basic math and logic capabilities (in this case modulo and for loops).
Wrong. Fizzbuzz is the epitome of a hiring test that is gamed by rote learning and adds absolutely nothing in terms of decisive info on wether s candidate is competent or not.
Your argument is like arguing in favour of using hello word in as many languages as possible and then claim that there is no need to memorize them because that's the point of the question.
that said i would only want to do it on a terminal, not on a whiteboard. i'd probably fuck that up somehow.
The concept of FizzBuzz? If you are a programmer you should be able to write a simple program with arithmetic and string manipulation. There's no reason an interviewer needs to ask exactly the FizzBuzz - but just something a bit like it. Asking the exact question from the blog is pretty lazy anyway.