[woolvalley]

The issue with a paid project is you can't legally do it with people on work visas, which is a large part of your interview pool.

They are all imperfect proxies due to various constraints.

[rightbyte]

What? Just let the programmer to it in his homeland. Easy. Just as outsourcing.

I wish this project approuch was more common. It would probably be cheaper than wasting time on multiple days interviewing reality shows where people are voted out one by one like some companies do it.

[woolvalley]

It doesn't work when they are already working in the foreign country. They aren't going to travel 12 hours to do a homework assignment for you legally.