I can&#x27;t agree with you enough, thanks for verifying that other people like me exist!<p>Give a person a specific task in a specific environment, and stand over them, and generally all you see is that they can bumble through something pretty unfamiliar under a high degree of stress and social pressure. This is a useful skill approximately 0% of the time in a real job. Or if it is a useful skill in the job, your team has more fundamental problems than hiring to worry about!<p>Give them a problem to solve. Full stop. Let them take their time, do it at home before the interview perhaps, or in a quiet room on their own with their own laptop, or whatever tools they want, internet access etc, with no real time limit. If they &#x27;cheat&#x27;, you&#x27;ll know because when you discuss their solution in depth later it&#x27;ll be clear as day. This will test what you&#x27;re really after, their ability to solve problems - allowing tools, the web, whatever else to work for them and not be arbitrary hurdles to jump over under pressure.