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I remember the last HN thread about Interview street they promised more 'real world' problems, instead they added more euler style algorithm quizes. I guess the companies have achieved good results basing hiring decisions on these algorithm quizes, maybe someone from interviewstreet can share some results?

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About all these quizzes for hiring, I really found Techcrunch's Why The New Guy Can’t Code[1] quite insightful (at least for startups) and filled with great links.

Hiring Developers: You're Doing It Wrong[2] also delves a lot more into this paradigm, showing some hands on experience and show the evolution of their hiring process. This post got a lot of tracking and great comments on HN as well[3].

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/07/why-the-new-guy-cant-code/

[2] http://devinterviews.pen.io/

[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2385424

Hi Tomh, we've received good results on this puzzles. But that said, we had a soft launch on the real world puzzles where we gave a few server instances and EC2 had to go down that day :| We're launching one soon - a real-world hack, given a server.

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