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Why not just give them a small (1 hour max) take home assignment with your tech stack, and then have have them talk through their approach in a follow up interview. You can test for all these things in their implementation while giving the interviewer time to think and breath.


If the test is open ended like "implement a simple API and a client that accesses it" then it's a terrible test. Tests that are better the more time you put into it are always terrible take home tests.

If it has well-defined success state then it's maybe OK "implement a maze-solving algorithm for a 3^n cube". If there are implementation tests that the candidate can use, even better




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