[screye]

It's funny you say that, because the alternative is Coderpad/Hackerrank style quizzes which I completely despise.

Those give me a world of anxiety. I know I can practice leetcode for 3 months full time and ace them, but that feels so wrong in spirit. Also, that's a tall ask for someone with a fulltime job. I will fully admit that I have never tried to remember syntax exactly for any language I use because coding speed was never a bottleneck for my job. Thus, I can almost never finish the darned problems in 45 minutes. My palms get sweaty and my head blanks out.

Weirdly enough. I can literally write the exact code on a whiteboard no-problem. The brain is weird.

[taurath]

The alternative could maybe be something actually related to the job at hand. Like “I’ve got a database here and we need a view on this page - how would you approach this problem?”

I guarantee you will find people who do the actual work. Companies don’t need massive amounts of coders that can minmax an arbitrary book algorithm. If you want someone to be “clever” in exactly that way then you can push them in that direction while solving a closer to real looking problem.