[jakub_g]

Sadly this is very true. I had been working with a colleague who was a perfect talker about best practices and what not, and first to criticize the offshore team for bad coding, yet himself he was as well doing a lot of crazy things and sloppy coding, and breaking the build and shipping regressions on a regular basis.

Unfortunately I don't have a good solution to this problem.

I'm wondering how interviews in other professions look like. For example when you're a director of a hospital and want to hire a surgeon. I guess you don't ask him to come one day to make a little surgery for free.

[watwut]

Surgeons are heavily credentialed. You have to have school and residency and subsewuent tests what not. I don't think same would be appropriate for coders.

[vonmoltke]

Sounds more like poor work ethic and other issues of professionalism, not lack of knowledge.