This seems like a very standard process, but personally the best interview I have done was a take-home exercise involving a real world problem. It took me a who

This seems like a very standard process, but personally the best interview I have done was a take-home exercise involving a real world problem. It took me a whole day to do it, but I only had to do exactly what I do best: write code, silently, "in the zone". No interview environment will ever simulate "the zone", and there is no way to truly test a programmer out of it.