[saghm]

> It boils down to this: 1. Your question is so simple it is stupid to ask someone who is actually qualified 2. Your question is so complicated that anyone who would feel semi-confident in having actually solved it in 40 minutes is someone too dangerous to keep around

Really? You don't think there's any possibility of a middle ground here?

[gravypod]

I don't think there is anything representative of an employee's quality of work that can be done during a short interview that would have a strong correlate to productivity and quality. I think a real-world take-home problem followed by a meeting-style presentation of your work, your solution, and a Q&A about the implementation with a representative subset of your peers would be better as this would actually be representative of the work load at hand at the company.

[joedo3]

the basis of the question its self invalidates middle ground