[NaturalPhallacy]

My favorite because of how realistic it is, is have me/the candidate do a code review. It's a real world thing that will be a part of most jobs that doesn't require artificial nonsense like coding in a browser, memorizable hacker rank crap, or some throw away time wasting coding challenge. As for if I can code, I have seven public github repos, 3 of which are previous take home challenges of varying degrees of absurdity.

[gsibble]

I said this elsewhere but reviewing previous projects or doing a code review does help somewhat, but it leaves out my ability to see your actual coding skill re: speed. I need to get a sense of that in order to feel comfortable hiring you. The only way I can do that is if you do some live coding one way or another. How you do it at our company is entirely up to you.

With our salaries, we have yet to have anyone turn us down when we get to that stage of the interview, but maybe someday it'll happen.