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Honestly, have neither of you heard of coderpad? My screens are like the GGP's question, except both I am the candidate are on the phone and on coderpad. Coderpad even had voice and video calls now. The candidate is free to Google, to use the repl, to use any language, etc. If the candidates wants, they can just share their screen in their own environment.

But asking a candidate for 30-50 lines of code is completely normal.

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Yeah, we use a tool like this. I agree it would be crazy to ask someone to code by voice over the phone, I assumed it was given that we were using a tool that let them write and share code.

You act as if it's on the person interviewing to set something like that up...

No they're not, you're both talking past each other. You're talking about phone-only interviews, but I don't think ALittleLight is even seeing it because that's such an obviously stupid idea it couldn't possibly be what you're talking about, so they think you're complaining about having to code.

I've literally had people ask me these types of questions while on the phone. And I "fail" on purpose because I won't attempt them. That's the point.

The fact that the internet exists and the interviewer could have used an online utility doesn't change my responsibility in that equation, that's just nuts.

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