My favorite interviews have been ones that started with the company giving me a choice between a few small programming projects. They usually let you do it in y

My favorite interviews have been ones that started with the company giving me a choice between a few small programming projects. They usually let you do it in your own time, over a week or so. When you turn it in, they can see how cleanly you write code, how careful you are about edge cases, whether or not you write unit tests, etc. etc. Of course, then they call you in to their office and...... give you a whiteboard interview that lasts 5 hours.