Amen. Speaking as someone who has suffered in a similar way and subsequently gone on to interview developers myself, may I state: interview / test conditions w

Amen. Speaking as someone who has suffered in a similar way and subsequently gone on to interview developers myself, may I state: interview / test conditions will invalidate everything that you think you can discover about a candidate. Live coding tests, logic problems, whiteboard exercises; all of those things will definitely rule out some genuinely great candidates. In an industry where jobs seem to outnumber competent applicants, I genuinely think softer, subtler interviews represent a much better approach.