I like to ask candidates to write real code (not pseudocode) on paper, but emphasize to them that I don't really care about superficial syntax errors. Most of t

I like to ask candidates to write real code (not pseudocode) on paper, but emphasize to them that I don't really care about superficial syntax errors. Most of the point of this is not in seeing the code they produce, but in watching them think and seeing how they react to questions and suggestions.