I've been on both sides of the interview process and I don't agree. If you were a chef applying for job it wouldn't be unreasonable if an interviewer actually a

I've been on both sides of the interview process and I don't agree. If you were a chef applying for job it wouldn't be unreasonable if an interviewer actually asked you to cook something (one famous chef would ask candidates to fry an egg). I do, however, not expect any candidate to do anything we haven't had to write ourselves. I also let them look up Google/StackOverflow etc during the interview. They're also offered a beer but nobody ever takes me up on that.