[sh87]

This is good, no doubt, but judging programming ability based on how they answer these questions is severely prone to fail because 1) this relies heavily on the interviewer's skills and 2) its so easy to game this system.

I've had so many co-workers talk, passionately, about stuff they don't have the faintest scent about. It's shocking.

Unless you actually oversee a candidate work and reason through a representative problem, implement it and articulate it, there's no good way to gauge competence.

[ellius]

I actually agree with that and think that's something I need to mix in. But I will say it's hard to bullshit your way through every one of those questions. I've had people BS through 3-4 but pretty much inevitably they fell apart on the others.