Live coding (open internet) had been one of the great tools to help evaluate people. We don't want programmers that necessarily know our programming language al

Live coding (open internet) had been one of the great tools to help evaluate people. We don't want programmers that necessarily know our programming language already, but you should know how to search for map/filter/sort built in functions. We also leverage take home assignments, which helps people get brushed up before the live challenge... It also tells us where people are in their skills -- code commented? It self-commenting? Any error handing? Etc. I've also pushed for this take home work to be relatively short, it's unfair to have candidates spend 4+ hours in a project with no promise if an interview. It always driver me nuts when businesses asked for that, so I try to avoid it myself. All this said, it had dramatically United the quality of our candidates we actually see in an interview, which saves our developers time interviewing someone who can't figure out how to do JavaScript sorting using built in functions, or printing out only of numbers in an array of alphanumeric values.