No hard feelings. Honestly, I'd have a much harder time hiring if half the rest of the industry wasn't irrationally cargo culting Google's hiring practices.
Ah, I see, then I don't think you read the GP post, or I wasn't clear enough, since that is exactly a point I made.
Also, if you're only giving real-world work tasks, do you screen at all for basic competence first? I ask because I suspect we're talking about different things.
Also 2 (edit), does your work only involve one kind of task? How do you assess the breadth of their basic understanding without using simple problems? Are your programmers doing very repetitive stuff?
