> That's why this practice should be abandoned. Give the candidates a small, two dayish homework that reveals their ability to do their would-be daily jobs. I

> That's why this practice should be abandoned. Give the candidates a small, two dayish homework that reveals their ability to do their would-be daily jobs. I find the opposite. Most real world projects require a week or two of infrastructure setup (logging, error handling, IOC setup, database setup, etc) that you won't have in the two day version, yet in my experience most companies will grade you on the lack of such things. Also, anyone already employed isn't going to invest that much time, which largely limits your candidate pool to employees no one else will hire.