Take the 2-minute tour ×  I've seen websites that screen
programmers by their ability to write code. It's a service that
you enter a programming question into and then send out a link.
Job candidates program their solution to the question as they
are timed and recorded. The person who posted the question can
then playback a video of their candidate programming the script.
This video allows them to see how quickly and neatly their job
candidate can code.  Are these types of services worth it? What
caveats and hangups are there to using such things to screen
potential hires?  Joel Spolsky has shared his secret on how he
hires his top coders. –  Job May 22 '11 at 16:12 The previous
version of this question was way off-topic; given that the top
answer (by far) ignored that version, I've revised the question
to ask about the value of these services, which is on-topic
here. –  user8 Nov 28 '11 at 15:29 comments disabled on deleted
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