[milesvp]

My experience has been that devs who struggle, will struggle with a simple for loop. This seems consistent with what I've heard from an Amazon bar raiser and the existence of fizz buzz. I'd be reluctant to give up this one sanity check of asking in real time a for loop question for whiteboard, or paper, psuedo code prefferably.

[kwillets]

At one point for phone screens, I just asked people to code up strcmp. I got some amazingly bad answers.

Some of this code-screen mistrust seems to come from the flood of poorly-qualified candidates; maybe there's a more diverse pool than before, but it comes at the cost of lots of wannabes.