[Natsu]

It's not that hard to come up with programming questions. It's harder to come up with relevant ones. What sort of algorithms do your devs actually use?

Do you need to know if they can write parameterized queries in SQL? Do you need to know if they can do simple web crawling or scraping? String manipulation? Or do they need to know how to do linked lists, hashes and binary searches?

I think you'd do better if, rather than making them redo old CS assignments, you focused on job-relevant tests.

[chc]

Do better at what? The kind of test we're talking about here is just a bozo filter. It's designed to keep out the flagrantly awful candidates who can't even write a simple program, not to test for actual job suitability.

[Natsu]

The original test is like that, but I don't think that's the question GGP was asking.