That's been my experience as well. I had one phone-interview with a west coast firm looking for a local-to-my-area contractor that included coding. But as for

That's been my experience as well. I had one phone-interview with a west coast firm looking for a local-to-my-area contractor that included coding. But as for every other interview I've done in and from the midwest, the closest they came to 'code' was one group asking obnoxious syntax questions. From the other side of the table, the firm I'm with now only has a pseudo-code step in the interviewing process if and when I run it. The director for my group doesn't even put the question forward if I can't make an interview appointment. Even though he agreed that it was a great tool that did filter out a couple duds that might well have been hires without it, and likely would have filtered out the one spectacularly bad fit that made it through before my time.