Is anybody going down the path of giving the candidate X hours yo complete a project, shoe iterations via source control history, showcase documentation and the overall build - plan? I would think you'd find the high performers easier in this light.
Not being a programmer by day but proficient in bash and Python I was in an interview last year where the person asking the questions did just not get it. In one example he asked me to count the number of files that had a specific string in the name. I excluded the file descriptor based on his ask. So, he said I got it wrong. I explained the way it was presented I was making the problem harder, and more exact, but he wouldn't budge. The point being, I could easily do what he asked, but wasn't actually measured on that.
Not being a programmer by day but proficient in bash and Python I was in an interview last year where the person asking the questions did just not get it. In one example he asked me to count the number of files that had a specific string in the name. I excluded the file descriptor based on his ask. So, he said I got it wrong. I explained the way it was presented I was making the problem harder, and more exact, but he wouldn't budge. The point being, I could easily do what he asked, but wasn't actually measured on that.