I appreciate your comment. I didn't realize you were actually advocating giving a bunch of small programming questions in place of one or two involved programm

I appreciate your comment. I didn't realize you were actually advocating giving a bunch of small programming questions in place of one or two involved programming questions. I totally agree that this is a far superior way to test programming ability. Actually developing such questions would be rather hard I think, it seems it would be very easy to degenerate to trivia. Perhaps a set of questions similiar to that Quixey one minute programming challenge that was posted here a while ago (http://challenge.quixey.com/ http://challenge.quixey.com/)? I actually have a very ambitious idea to completely disrupt tech hiring. You have echoed much of my rationale. I don't want to go into detail, but the premise is basically to remove ego from the hiring process and make it far more statistically sound. Of course, this is also the very reason would very likely fail. Everyone loves to employ their pet "interviewing hack" to find world-class developers (who happen to be a mirror image of themselves). Most people will not give that up lightly.