[voidhorse]

Terrible way to hire in my opinion.

Personally, I'd rather hire employees who are resourceful, can admit when they don't know something, can follow up with others and conduct proper research to tackle cases where they don't know the solution to a problem, and most of all, are a pleasure to work with and bring good and diligent attitudes about work into the office.

Hiring based on questions like this will get you someone ahead of the curve who perhaps you can trust to execute well immediately but will probably turn out to be a massive pain in the rear in the long run.

I'd rather hire people with good attitudes and willingness to learn and spend the extra time training them and helping them out rather than hire someone because they happened to get in enough rote technical exercises before coming into the interview.