[szastupov]

> I believe live coding is a scourge and we should get rid of it altogether.

I would take an hour of live coding any time over a take-home task that is one hour only on paper and takes you three in reality.

Engineering is collaboration, and it's fair to expect candidates to talk, solve problems, and explain their solutions.

Where we could do better as an industry is the type of problems we give to people. I'm not a fan of LeetCode-style questions, especially when multiple ones are asked. Something closer to Earth would be better. But even if you have to ask something algorithmical, I'd prefer the style of "Advent of Code" exercises where the same problem has variations and multiple levels of complexity.

[thaumasiotes]

> But even if you have to ask something algorithmical, I'd prefer the style of "Advent of Code" exercises where the same problem has variations and multiple levels of complexity.

That's how Amazon does their interviews.

[tdeck]

It only takes you three hours if you don't pay someone else to write it for you and provide you with a written brief about how it works, which is what I suspect some candidates must do.