> Because then people will cheat and have a friend do the test for you. Isn't this problem shared by all exams? How often do people successfully cheat on their

> Because then people will cheat and have a friend do the test for you. Isn't this problem shared by all exams? How often do people successfully cheat on their university/college entrance exams? And hell, can't you potentially do this with a technical interview? Nobody who interviewed you is actually going to see you again and I don't recall an ID check at any of my interviews. > Other than that, there is teaching to the test. You can easily argue that's what happens now, and most systems suffer for it. Exactly, we already have "cracking the coding interview" and similar tools. I think this approach would be better because the questions can always be prepared for a particular year's interview from scratch, so there's no chance they've been seen before.