[autarch]

If you really want to test someone's coding, let them do some coding in their own time with their own tools and send it to you. This isn't ideal, since it can be time consuming, but I think it's more humane than live coding in some weird environment.

[nawgz]

I would argue that using less of someone's time is strictly "more humane" than using more of someone's time, because an individual's reaction to a situation is... individual

[tfehring]

There's no reason an asynchronous coding assignment needs to be more time-intensive than a synchronous coding interview - that's the convention but it's not a necessary one. Lots of companies do 4 hours of technical interviews, it's not hard to come up with an effective programming assignment that takes less time than that.

[wiseowise]

This is subjective.

[autarch]

Maybe the best option is just to give people a choice.