Normal companies shouldn't hire this way. They're trying to find the one in ten thousand genius. Most companies don't need to. If I were hiring a developer I'd

Normal companies shouldn't hire this way. They're trying to find the one in ten thousand genius. Most companies don't need to. If I were hiring a developer I'd ask them to write a simple app. Then I'd ask them to explain in as much detail as possible as to what happens when you type www.google.com in your address bar and the google homepage showing up. I expect them to mention DNS lookups , IP Addresses , HTTP Requests , HTML parsing , HTTP methods etc