[kuni-toko-tachi]

Whiteboard exercises, homework, and pair programming are ridiculous ways to test a candidate.

Code samples tell me more about an engineer than absurd and contrived and time pressured tests that have no relationship to how real engineers solve problems.

[acjohnson55]

Those are tricky though. What if someone doesn't have readily shareable code? I'd argue that if you really deconstruct how you would be evaluating a persons' code, you can probably get the same information by thoughtful questions.