[com2kid]

> Does anybody believe you when you say those things in a job interview, though? I wouldn't. A job interview is fundamentally a competition against other candidates. If you have two candidates and one finishes the task in half the time he's more likely to get the job.

Not at all.

I have one hour to decide if I want to work with a candidate.

How quickly someone works? Sure, that is important.

How good is their sense of humor? Can they joke around? Can they be involved in a technical deep dive on a problem? How about coming up with test cases?

I have 60 minutes and one programming problem. I've hired people who've taken from 5 minutes to 40.