I met someone who complained about how he was required to write code to solve simple problems in an interview. He took that as an offense, saying that he was a

I met someone who complained about how he was required to write code to solve simple problems in an interview. He took that as an offense, saying that he was a websphere something something expert and shouldn't be bothered with little things like coding. I did waste my time trying to explain to him that small coding questions are often the easy way to weed out the people who pretend to have technical expertise and that these are more frequent that he'd think. I still think the coding questions are useful and I don't ind losing such a candidate.