[astrec]

Programming challenges sort the wheat from the chaff - in particular those who cannot code at all, but beyond that I've rarely found them predictive of future performance. Much more important that you hire a good fit for your company. An unhappy or toxic coder can bring a startup to its knees - hire slow, fire fast and all that.

[goofygrin]

This is true. I aced the coding portion, but after 6 months, I was definitely not a good fit in the culture of the last company I worked for.