Of course companies need to verify you can actually do the work for which they are potentially going to hire you. However, if you hand me such a task (or glass

Of course companies need to verify you can actually do the work for which they are potentially going to hire you. However, if you hand me such a task (or glassdoor says you will), I have to be really excited about your company to spend my time that way. A 20 minute shared-coding session in one of the dozen online collaborative edit tools would probably give you most of the same information while saving a lot of the candidate's time.