Spot on, I&#x27;ve independently decided that I won&#x27;t submit to brain-teasers and white-board coding (diagramming yes) any longer.<p>A company can look at my online work, read my written communication, have a nice chat on the phone, and then perhaps can hire me for a short contract to write a component to see how things work out.  If they don&#x27;t they don&#x27;t have to pay.<p>I&#x27;m also considering not allowing video on the calls also, and will experiment with that.  For the last five years I haven&#x27;t gotten any work from startups (even though I specialize in python and javascript) and wonder if it is due to the fact that I don&#x27;t dress like a lumberjack and am not as young as I used to be.