Comment by sigmoid10

I've had take home problems for job interviews that were given a few days before and during the actual interview I only had to explain my code. But I wouldn't be sure this still works as a useful candidate filter today, given how much coding agents have advanced. In fact, if you were a sr dev and had a bunch of guys to bounce this problem back and forth, it wouldn't even have filtered out the bad ones back in the old days. There is very little that is more telling than seeing a person work out a problem live, even if that sucks for smart people who can't handle stress.