As a developer that has made these tests, I hope you do it but understand if you won't. We tried to start paying people to do these but it's too easy to make ar

As a developer that has made these tests, I hope you do it but understand if you won't. We tried to start paying people to do these but it's too easy to make arguments that this makes people employees so legal wouldn't allow it. According to research by Google and others, the best correlated metric of a successful software developer is IQ. Unfortunately it's hard to make a test for this that doesn't discriminate against protected classes. So we settle for the two second-best predictors. These are a work sample and structured interview. Together these can predict maybe 50% of job success. If you've been in a position that involves reviewing others code its apparent that there's an extremely large spectrum of programming skill. We found work samples to be extremely effective for weeding out people that we would need to clean up after (damage quality metrics of our codebase). The upside for you is that if they take work samples seriously you're probably going to be working with more skilled developers. When we added work samples to our interview process the amount of people we had to retrain or let go for lack of development skills fell to nothing. Before that it was ~30%. Some people are really good at bullshitting you :)