This is awesome and I think every company should do something like this. You get to ballpark technical ability really well while getting some very relevant beha

This is awesome and I think every company should do something like this. You get to ballpark technical ability really well while getting some very relevant behavioral information (i.e. what will it actually be like to work with this person, without lame ‘culture fit’ questions). It can be hard to test competence in a way that allows all kinds of devs to shine; code reviews are pretty unavoidable on the job though so it’s a good fit. Coding is a mostly solitary activity that you probably don’t want candidates spending more than ~60 minutes on, ideally on something that resembles the actual day-to-day instead of sucking all the Leetcode possible out of them. Even just quickly pair programming on something nets you more data points in the same time.