I don&#x27;t disagree with you, but my problem with short coding tests is that they&#x27;re often very, <i>very</i> contrived. The kind of contrived that it is extremely likely that it will be something I have zero experience with in my day-to-day work. It&#x27;s extremely difficult to find a coding challenge that hits all the points you mentioned.<p>At my current company, we have several problems that we choose between, depending on the skill level of the candidate. But even after interviewing over a hundred candidates, I still feel like none of us get half the information we think we&#x27;re getting.<p>I don&#x27;t have any answers, but I don&#x27;t think your plan of attack is necessarily any better than the author&#x27;s.