> Ideally the candidate offers code samples Code samples are not like blood or urine samples, you should have serious and public projects to sample from. Many

> Ideally the candidate offers code samples Code samples are not like blood or urine samples, you should have serious and public projects to sample from. Many great programmers are not coding outside of the work environment, what should they provide according to your method ? And for those who do, they can explain things but you can never be sure they actually wrote it or will be able to write at a similar level (well, that's partially true for take home tests as well)