I completely understand the reasons why they ask the questions. I just don't think they work that well for finding out if a candidate would work out to be a go

I completely understand the reasons why they ask the questions. I just don't think they work that well for finding out if a candidate would work out to be a good employee. As for interviewing in the UK, I've interviewed at many large and small companies and yes, they do have technical tests but I have come across none so in depth as the ones I'm encountering over here. The strangest thing though, all these places have loads of spaces open for programmers yet such a rigid system that seems to require 100% scoring that most programmers, regardless of how valuable they might be, end up being ignored. The worst is for someone like myself who has been out of university for so long I don't remember how to answer some of the very exam-like questions yet you give me a coding problem and I can solve it.