Do you actually ask them to do this on a piece of paper?
because I went through an interview process not too long ago, and they asked me to take a test that was actually very simple stuff, fibonacci sequence, dealing with strings, etc.
And for the life of me I just couldn't do it on paper, if I was still in college I might have done it, but now that I'm a professional developer, I DON'T code on paper anymore, it feels weird and awkward.
Maybe do a test, and let a few take the test on the computer, doesn't have to be in an IDE, just let them hack away at notepad, or something.
I know most people believe developers should be those guys that can code their way out of any problem with just matchsticks or something, but really, would you ever encounter a situation where you need a developer to actually write code on paper?
And before anyone says I'm just a bad programmer, I am usually the go to guy at my workplace, the guy that usually solves hard issues, and the more competent I become at actually useful stuff, and actual day to day programming challenges, the more I feel far from things like your test.
Alternatively, you could also use a real world problem, I think there is nothing that can get a guy to prove they are a good developer than making subtle bugs in some code and asking the guy to fix them.
because I went through an interview process not too long ago, and they asked me to take a test that was actually very simple stuff, fibonacci sequence, dealing with strings, etc.
And for the life of me I just couldn't do it on paper, if I was still in college I might have done it, but now that I'm a professional developer, I DON'T code on paper anymore, it feels weird and awkward. Maybe do a test, and let a few take the test on the computer, doesn't have to be in an IDE, just let them hack away at notepad, or something.
I know most people believe developers should be those guys that can code their way out of any problem with just matchsticks or something, but really, would you ever encounter a situation where you need a developer to actually write code on paper?
And before anyone says I'm just a bad programmer, I am usually the go to guy at my workplace, the guy that usually solves hard issues, and the more competent I become at actually useful stuff, and actual day to day programming challenges, the more I feel far from things like your test.
Alternatively, you could also use a real world problem, I think there is nothing that can get a guy to prove they are a good developer than making subtle bugs in some code and asking the guy to fix them.