I can't remember the link, but I read about one job where they gave candidates an ssh login and asked them to write a simple, running, perl script. Something l

I can't remember the link, but I read about one job where they gave candidates an ssh login and asked them to write a simple, running, perl script. Something like 10% actually finished the assignment, and they hired one of them, but avoided screwing around with LOTS of screening phone calls, enthusiastic people who "were familiar" with Perl, Windows programmers who didn't really know what ssh was, etc.