Please add fizzbuzz and other stupid code trivia to the list.
If you want to see how a developer really works, ask them to submit a patch, participate in a real code review and review their public facing code contributions.
If you want to see how a developer really works, ask them to submit a patch, participate in a real code review and review their public facing code contributions.
I dislike your tools based "do it live" test unless you pre-configure their preferred tool chain end to end. Many devs are rote in their tools of choice while lost in anything else. That's ok.