I instituted take home tests within my group. We're up front that the interviewee should not spend more than 4 hours on the project and that we don't care if i

I instituted take home tests within my group. We're up front that the interviewee should not spend more than 4 hours on the project and that we don't care if it works. I am more interested in whether or not I can read the person's code, follow their logic, and if they think about logging, unit testing, etc. Coding skill, while important, is a very small part of whether or not I am interested in a candidate. Soft skills are a much stronger part of the equation IMO. I could care less if a person can write a recursive function or if they don't know the performance difference between different ways of doing things.