>Or: here's a whiteboard, implement some algorithm you last studied 10 years ago and that you will never use in front of 4 people staring at/judging you. You ha

>Or: here's a whiteboard, implement some algorithm you last studied 10 years ago and that you will never use in front of 4 people staring at/judging you. You have 5 minutes. :D I agree with the fact that this style of testing is not directly measuring the skills relevant to the job. Say what you want, however, a candidate that does solid on the whiteboard despite the irrelevancy of it, is a good candidate because a whiteboard is one hundred times harder than the take home test and most of the problems that will be thrown at the candidate on the job.